Humanities & Social Sciences
Humanities & Social Sciences
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UCLA Extension offers transfer credit courses* to help you graduate on time, earn credits toward your degree, or help your application stand out as you prepare for graduate or professional school.
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Credits are directly transferable to all UC and Cal State campuses, plus many more universities nationwide. UCLA Extension transfer credit courses feature XL 1-199 in their course number and are equivalent to undergraduate courses offered by the UCLA regular session. Some limitations may apply. Check with the receiving institution to confirm transferability.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Courses
COMM XL 1
Principles of Oral Communication
This course provides instruction and experience in preparation and delivery of speeches. The emphasis is on research, preparation, delivery and evaluation of speeches.
COM LIT 700
Questioning Media is Key to Democracy
Artificial intelligence, fake news, and sensationalized media make it harder than ever to know what’s true. In this webinar, Dr. Jeff Share—award-winning photojournalist, educator, and UCLA senior lecturer—guides participants in using a critical media literacy framework to analyze media messages and create digital memes. Through engaging with images, sounds, multimedia, and social media, we’ll strengthen critical thinking and explore our role as active global citizens.
SOCIOL XL 156
Race and Ethnicity in American Life
This course focuses on racial and ethnic relations that continue to permeate American lives, color our national character, and shape the structure of American society.
SOCIOL XL 130
Self and Society
Through our everyday interactions, we make and remake our social worlds and these worlds make and remake us. This course examines social processes shaping experience, definition, and enactment of self and personal identity.
SOCIOL XL 128
Sociology of Emotions
This course examines the new field of the sociology of emotions from a constructionist and interactionist perspective. Instruction addresses such issues as definition and the social and cultural construction of emotion.