Research deconstruction is a classroom-based pedagogy, developed at UCLA, that introduces novice undergraduate students to the process of scientific inquiry through in-depth analysis of a PhD-level research seminar. After students watch the seminar, the course instructor unpacks it over several classes, introducing the underlying basic science and working with students to identify major questions, examine experiments designed to address these questions, and analyze data presented. After this series of “deconstruction” classes, the speaker may return for a “Question & Answer” session. By this point, the students have acquired sufficient mastery of the material to ask insightful questions about the research.