The Research Development seminar is the heart of CAPPP’s academic component. The seminar has been carefully designed to help students move step-by-step from proposal to research design to paper to final presentation.

During the Fall and Spring quarter programs, all 30 CAPPP students meet together once a week for a three-hour seminar-style class. The seminar is supplemented by work in small groups.

During the Winter program, the course is run tutorial-style, in which small groups meet regularly with faculty throughout the quarter.

Every quarter, each student receives intensive one-on-one research and writing guidance from CAPPP’s outstanding faculty: UCLA Political Science Professor James A. Desveaux, and an advanced UCLA graduate student teaching fellow in the social sciences.

As projects take shape, students also learn an array of social science methodologies through readings and discussion.

At the end of the program, you will have completed a piece of original research that will strengthen your your writing skills, your readiness for graduate studies, and your resumè.