CLUSTER 66A

Los Angeles: The Cluster

• Literary and Cultural Analysis
• Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
• Historical Analysis
• Social Analysis

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 66A is enforced requisite to 66B, which is enforced requisite to 66CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. In-depth look at city in which UCLA is located. Drawing on concept of Los Angeles as laboratory, students engage in systematic way with urban area that is to be their home for next several years. As they do, they come to understand peoples, spaces, politics, and cultures of Los Angeles and its metropolitan region in both present and past, as well as Los Angeles' place in urban world. Letter grading.