CLUSTER 55A
Innovative Thinking and Entrepreneurship: From Theory to Practice
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 78 minutes ago.
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, two hours. Exploration of entrepreneurship as a driver of innovation, economic development, and social change. Study of the historical, institutional, and cultural foundations of entrepreneurial activity, while gaining practical skills. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45amClosed
Sarada, U. and Bassett, J.
no grade history146 of 146 enrolled high risk
6 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 6 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 1A
M 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons 218
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1B
M 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 218
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1C
M 6:00pm-7:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2317
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 1343
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1E
M 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1F
M 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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What a flat run means, and where a line starts
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Lec 1 · Sarada, U. and Bassett, J. · 146 of 146 enrolled
Filled by 62 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
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