WL ARTS 20Culture: Introduction
World Arts and Cultures · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Introduction to key concepts and major theoretical and methodological debates that characterize field of cultural studies, including discussion of notions of culture, popular culture, subculture, youth culture, hegemony, gender, race, class, and national identity.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
WL ARTS 20
- WL ARTS 104Representations: Theories and Practices
- WL ARTS C182Film and Feminism
- WL ARTS C282Film and Feminism
- WL ARTS C150Critical Ethnographies
- WL ARTS C250Critical Ethnographies
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.