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- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
- CHEM 14BEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II--Enhanced
- CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules
- CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
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BIOCHEM1 course
BIOCHEM 153AIntroduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism
Sign upStructure of proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids; enzyme catalysis and principles of metabolism, including glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation
C&EE3 courses
C&EE 1Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
Sign upLecture, two hours; outside study, four hours. Examples of infrastructure, its importance, and manner by which it is designed and constructed. Role of civil engineers in infrastructure development and preservation. P/NP grading.C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
Sign up(Same as Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering M20.) Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: Mathematics 33A. Fundamentals of computer programming taught in context of MATLAB computing environment. Basic data types and control structures. Input/output. Functions.C&EE 58XPClimate Change, Water Quality, and Ecosystem Functioning
Sign up(Formerly numbered 58SL.) Lecture, four hours; service learning, two hours; outside study, nine hours. Science related to climate change, water quality, and ecosystem health. Participation in series of science education projects to elementary or middle school audience. Letter grading.
CHEM26 courses
CHEM 3Material World
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Focus on most important advances made by humans in developing new molecules and materials, and how these discoveries affect our everyday life. These include development of paints, polymers, metals, fuels, drugs, energetic materials, radioactive substances, poisons, and many more.CHEM 4AChemistry and Your Health
Sign upLecture, two hours. Recent health trends and how they are portrayed in pop culture and media. Examination of scientific explanations behind current health crazes and determination if there is validity to these claims. Discussion of chemical principles, such as basic arrow pushing mechanisms, radical oxidations, etc.CHEM 4BWhat's Cooking Chemistry in the Kitchen
Sign upLecture, three hours. What is difference between baking soda and baking powder? Why do some recipes call for butter, margarine, or shortening? Answers to these questions and more through dive into chemistry happening every day in your kitchen. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 7Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Laboratory
Sign upSeminar, discussion, and laboratory, 32 hours. Limited to high school students. Key concepts of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including various approaches to nanofabrication (bottom-up and top-down). Offered in summer only. P/NP grading.CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Life Sciences 30A or Mathematics 3A or 31A or score of 48 or better on Mathematics Diagnostic Test.CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I--Enhanced
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Life Sciences 30A or Mathematics 3A or 31A or score of 48 or better on Mathematics Diagnostic Test.CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: one course from 14A, 14AE, 20A, or 20AH with grade of C- or better. Enforced requisite or corequisite: Life Sciences 30B or Mathematics 3B or 31B with grade of C- or better. Not open to students with credit for course 14BE, 20B, or 20BH. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 14BEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II--Enhanced
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: one course from 14A, 14AE, 20A, or 20AH with grade of C- or better. Enforced requisite or corequisite: Life Sciences 30B or Mathematics 3B or 31B with grade of C- or better. Not open to students with credit for course 14B, 20B, or 20BH. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 14BLGeneral and Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 14A or 20A or 20AH with grade of C- or better. Enforced corequisite: course 14B. Not open to students with credit for course 20L. Introduction to volumetric, spectrophotometric, and potentiometric analysis. Use and preparation of buffers and pH meters.CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 14B with grade of C- or better. Not open to students with credit for course 30A. Continuing studies in structure of organic molecules, with emphasis on biological applications. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 14CLGeneral and Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, six hours. Enforced requisites: courses 14B and 14BL, or 20B and 20L, with grades of C- or better. Enforced corequisite: course 14C. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 14C with grade of C- or better. Organic reactions, nucleophilic and electrophilic substitutions and additions; electrophilic aromatic substitutions, carbonyl reactions, catalysis, molecular basis of drug action, and organic chemistry of pharmaceuticals.CHEM 17Chemical Principles
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to chemical principles: numbers, measurements, chemical calculations, gas laws, solutions, acids, bases, and salts, molecular structure, and nomenclature. Collaborative learning and problem solving; introduction to chemistry laboratory practice. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 20AChemical Structure
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Recommended preparation: high school physics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 31A. First term of general chemistry.CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background, high school physics, and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 31A. Honors course parallel to course 20A. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 20A or 20AH, and Mathematics 31A, with grades of C- or better. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 31B. Second term of general chemistry. Intermolecular forces and organization, phase behavior, chemical thermodynamics, solutions, equilibria, reaction rates and laws.CHEM 20BHChemical Energetics and Change (Honors)
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 20A and Mathematics 31A with grades of B+ or better or 20AH with grade of B or better. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 31B. Honors course parallel to course 20B. Letter grading.CHEM 20LGeneral Chemistry Laboratory
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 14A or 20A with grade of C- or better. Enforced corequisite: course 14B or 20B. Use of balance, volumetric techniques, volumetric and potentiometric analysis; Beer's law, applications for environmental analysis and materials science. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 20B with grade of C- or better. First term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Covalent bonding, shapes, stereochemistry, and acid/base properties of organic molecules. SN2, SN1, elimination, and radical reactions.CHEM 30ALGeneral Chemistry Laboratory II
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, six hours. Enforced requisites: courses 20B (or 20BH), 20L, and 30A (or 30AH), with grades of C- or better. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of chemical reactions and compounds, kinetics, separations, and spectroscopy. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 30A or 30AH, with grade of C- or better. Second term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Organometallic compounds. P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 30BLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory I
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 30A (or 30AH), 30AL and 30B, with grades of C- or better. Basic experimental techniques in organic synthesis (performing reactions, monitoring reactions, and conducting purifications) and spectroscopy (IR, NMR, mass spectrometry). P/NP or letter grading.CHEM 30COrganic Chemistry III: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Biomolecules
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 30B with grade of C- or better. Third term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Chemistry of enolates, enamines, dicarbonyl compounds, and amines. Molecular orbital theory and conjugated pi systems; UV/vis spectroscopy.CHEM 30CLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory II
Sign upLecture, two hours; laboratory, six hours. Enforced requisites: courses 30B and 30BL, with grades of C- or better. Enforced corequisite: course 30C. Modern techniques in synthetic organic and analytical organic chemistry. Semi-preparative scale, multistep synthesis of organic and organometallic molecules, including asymmetric catalysts.CHEM 50Computational Tools for Materials Modeling and Discovery
Sign upLecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 14A or 20A or 20AH, with grade of C- or better. Materials are central to many modern technologies, from industrial catalysis, to batteries, computer hard disks, and quantum computers. Basic concepts related to programming and scripting, and basis of computational chemistry included.CHEM 153ABiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism
Sign upStructure of proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids; enzyme catalysis and principles of metabolism, including glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.
COM SCI6 courses
COM SCI 30Principles and Practices of Computing
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Designed for students in computer science and related majors who do not have prior programming experience. Precursor course to introductory computer science sequence (courses 31, 32, 33). Letter grading.COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Introduction to computer science via theory, applications, and programming. Basic data types, operators and control structures. Input/output. Procedural and data abstraction. Introduction to object-oriented software development. Functions, recursion. Letter grading.COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisite: course 31. Object-oriented software development. Abstract data type definition and use. Overloading, inheritance, polymorphism. Object-oriented view of data structures: stacks, queues, lists. Algorithm analysis. Searching and sorting. Letter grading.COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, nine hours. Enforced requisite: course 32. Introductory course on computer architecture, assembly language, and operating systems fundamentals. Number systems, machine language, and assembly language. Procedure calls, stacks, interrupts, and traps. Letter grading.COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: course 31. Fundamentals of tools and environments for software construction projects, particularly open-source platforms used in upper-division computer science courses. Software practice through collaborative student project. Letter grading.COM SCI M51ALogic Design of Digital Systems
Sign up(Same as Electrical and Computer Engineering M16.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Introduction to digital systems. Specification and implementation of combinational and sequential systems. Standard logic modules and programmable logic arrays. Number systems and arithmetic algorithms. Letter grading.
COMPTNG8 courses
COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. No prior programming experience assumed. P/NP or letter grading.COMPTNG 10BIntermediate Programming
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Requisite: course 10A or Computer Science 31. P/NP or letter grading.COMPTNG 10CAdvanced Programming
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Enforced requisite: course 10B. More advanced algorithms and data structuring techniques; additional emphasis on algorithmic efficiency; advanced features of C++, such as inheritance and virtual functions; graph algorithms. P/NP or letter grading.COMPTNG 15Introduction to Lisp and Symbolic Computation
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Enforced requisite: course 10A. Introduction to symbolic computation using Lisp programming language. Basics: list structures, recursion, function abstraction. Advanced topics: knowledge representation, higher-order functions, problem-solving algorithms and heuristics.COMPTNG 16APython with Applications I
Sign up(Formerly numbered 16.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: course 10A, Computer Science 31, or equivalent, with grades of C- or better. In-depth introduction to Python programming language for students who have already taken beginning programming course in strongly typed, compiled language (C++, C, or Fortran).COMPTNG 16BPython with Applications II
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisite: course 16A or equivalent. In-depth application of Python programming language to problems arising in variety of areas of current interest such as machine learning, computer vision, statistical analysis, numerical analysis, and data acquisition. P/NP or letter grading.COMPTNG 20APrinciples of Java Language with Applications
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Requisite: course 10A or Computer Science 31. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3. Introduction to Java computer language. Issues in class design and design of interactive web pages. P/NP or letter grading.COMPTNG 40AIntroduction to Programming for Internet
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: course 10A or Computer Science 31 or equivalent, and one from course 10B, 16A, 20A, Computer Science 32, or equivalent, with grades of C- or better. Introduction to programming for World Wide Web for students with strong foundation in programming. P/NP or letter grading.
EC ENGR7 courses
EC ENGR 2Physics for Electrical Engineers
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: Physics 1C. Introduction to concepts of modern physics necessary to understand solid-state devices, including elementary quantum theory, Fermi energies, and concepts of electrons in solids. Letter grading.EC ENGR 2HPhysics for Electrical Engineers (Honors)
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: Physics 1C. Honors course parallel to course 2. Letter grading.EC ENGR 3Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Sign upLecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Introduction to field of electrical engineering. Basic circuits techniques with application to explanation of electrical engineering inventions such as telecommunications, electrical grid, automatic computing and control, and enabling device technology. Letter grading.EC ENGR 10Circuit Theory I
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisites: course 3 (or Computer Science 1 or Materials Science 10), Mathematics 33A, Physics 1B. Corequisites: course 11L (enforced), Mathematics 33B. Introduction to linear circuit analysis. Letter grading.EC ENGR 10HCircuit Theory I (Honors)
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisites: course 3 (or Computer Science 1 or Materials Science 10), Mathematics 33A, Physics 1B. Corequisites: course 11L (enforced only for Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering majors), Mathematics 33B. Honors course parallel to course 10.EC ENGR 11LCircuits Laboratory I
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, one hour; outside study, one hour. Enforced corequisite: course 10. Experiments with basic circuits containing resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers. Ohm's law voltage and current division, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, superposition, transient and steady state analysis.EC ENGR M16Logic Design of Digital Systems
Sign up(Same as Computer Science M51A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Introduction to digital systems. Specification and implementation of combinational and sequential systems. Standard logic modules and programmable logic arrays. Number systems and arithmetic algorithms. Letter grading.
ECON11 courses
ECON 1Principles of Economics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to students with credit for former course 100. Introduction to principles of economic analysis, economic institutions, and issues of economic policy. Emphasis on allocation of resources and distribution of income through price system. P/NP or letter grading.ECON 2Principles of Economics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 1. Not open to students with credit for former course 100. Introduction to principles of economic analysis, economic institutions, and issues of economic policy. P/NP or letter grading.ECON 3AIntroduction to Investments
Sign upLecture, two hours. Broad introduction to investments. No previous financial, economic, or math background needed. Students learn organizing framework with which to understand investing landscape with highlight on key concepts and functionality related to business and personal investments. P/NP grading.ECON 3BIntroduction to Investments
Sign upLecture, two hours. Requisite: course 3A. Broad introduction to investments. No previous financial, economic, or math background needed. Students learn organizing framework with which to understand investing landscape with highlight on key concepts and functionality related to business and personal investments. P/NP grading.ECON 4Introduction to Investments
Sign upLecture, two hours. Broad introduction to investments. No previous financial, economic, or math background needed. Students learn organizing framework with which to understand investing landscape with highlight on key concepts and functionality related to business and personal investments. P/NP or letter grading.ECON 5Economics for Everyone
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to models and tools used by economists in practical real-world context. Study of important topical issues such as inequality, health care, and environmental policies. Students learn about available data sources and become better equipped to understand current events.ECON 10PEconomics Toolkit: Introduction to Python for Economists
Sign upLecture, three hours. Python is commonly used programming language for data science. It is powerful and easy to learn tool that can be applied to make simple histograms or fit complicated machine learning models. Introduction to using Python for basic data exploration, analysis, and visualization. P/NP grading.ECON 10REconomics Toolkit: Introduction to R for Economists
Sign upLecture, three hours. Hands-on introduction to data analysis in economics using R. Covers essential mathematical tools and introduces mechanics of R. No prior knowledge of R, computer programming, statistics, or economics is required. P/NP grading.ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 1, 2, Mathematics 31A, 31B, with grades of C or better. Laws of demand, supply, returns, and costs; price and output determination in different market situations. P/NP or letter grading.ECON 12Introduction to Personal Finance
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to personal finance. No previous financial, economic, or mathematics background required. Open to nonmajors. Letter grading.ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B, with grades of C or better. Not open to students with credit for former Statistics 11. Introduction to theory and practice of mathematical statistics with emphasis on its use in economics. Letter grading.
EE BIOL7 courses
EE BIOL 10Plants and Civilization
Sign upLecture, three hours; demonstration, one hour. Designed for nonmajors. Origin of crop plants; man's role in development, distribution, and modification of food, fiber, medicinal, and other plants in relation to their natural history. P/NP or letter grading.EE BIOL 12Biodiversity and Extinction: Crisis and Conservation
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of ecological and evolutionary principles necessary to understand nature and importance of worldwide environmental crisis. Research by students of specific conservation issues and presentation of results to class. P/NP or letter grading.EE BIOL 17Evolution for Everyone
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Exploration in detail of Darwinian natural selection, with emphasis on evidence and implications for modern problems people and societies face, including antibiotic resistance, insect resistance to pesticides, and coevolution of pollinators with crop plants. Letter grading.EE BIOL 18Why Ecology Matters: Science Behind Environmental Issues
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Basic ecological concepts, scientific method, and ecological basis for local and global environmental issues. Major challenges to be faced in this century, including need to find interdisciplinary and collaborative solutions to world's worsening environmental problems (e.g.EE BIOL 21Field Biology
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours, or field trips, three to four hours. Recommended preparation: Life Sciences 15. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 122 or Life Sciences 1. Introduction to natural history of Western North America, especially Southern California. P/NP or letter grading.EE BIOL 25Living Ocean
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour; field trips, three hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences 15. Physical and chemical processes that take place in oceans, with emphasis on their effects on organisms. P/NP or letter grading.EE BIOL 50Desert Life
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Introduction to fundamental structural, physiological, and behavioral features of desert organisms, with special emphasis on deserts of Western North America. P/NP or letter grading.
ENGR1 course
ENGR 2Technology and Society
Sign upLecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, three hours. Introduction of broader societal opportunities, impacts, and challenges associated with technology. Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, consideration of some of ethical, policy, and legal questions spurred by rapid technological change. Letter grading.
EPS SCI15 courses
EPS SCI 1Introduction to Earth Science
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours; field days. Not open to students with credit for or currently enrolled in course 100. Elements of Earth science; study of Earth materials; nature and interpretation of geologic evidence; study of geologic processes; historical aspects of geology. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 3Astrobiology
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life on Earth and in universe. Course material primarily from planetary and Earth sciences, paleontology and biology, astronomy, chemistry, and physics. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 5Environmental Geology of Los Angeles
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; field trips. Geologic hazards and natural resources of greater Los Angeles region. Field trips to San Andreas fault, California aqueduct, active landslides, and historic gold mines. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI M7Perils of Space: Introduction to Space Weather
Sign up(Same as Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences M7.) Lecture, four hours. Concepts of plasma physics. Dynamic sun, solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Space storms and substorms and their impacts on astronauts, spacecraft, and surface power and communication grids. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 8Earthquakes
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour; one field day. Causes and effects of earthquakes. Plate motion, frictional faulting, earthquake instability, wave propagation, earthquake damage, and other social effects. Hazard reduction through earthquake forecasting and earthquake-resistant design. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 9Solar System and Planets
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Properties of sun, planets, asteroids, and comets. Astronomical observations relevant to understanding solar system and its origin. Dynamical problems, including examination of fallacious hypotheses. Meteoritic evidence regarding earliest history of solar system. Chemical models of solar nebula.EPS SCI 10Exploring Mars, Red Planet
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. History and future of Mars exploration, origin of planet, surface materials, and atmosphere. History of climate. Questions regarding water and life. Scientific and practical issues in mission design. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 13Natural Disasters
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; one field day. Global urbanization together with historical demographic population shift to coastal areas, especially around Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, are placing increasingly large parts of this planet's human population at risk due to earthquakes, volcanos, and tsunamis.g.EPS SCI 15Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for or currently enrolled in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 25. General introduction to geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and history of Earth's global ocean system. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 16Major Events in History of Life
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Designed for nonmajors. History of life on Earth as revealed through fossil record. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 17Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours; one optional field trip. Designed for nonmajors. Exploration of biology, evolution, and extinction of dinosaurs and close relatives, in context of history of biosphere. Information from paleontology, biology, and geology. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 20Natural History of Southern California
Sign upLecture, two hours; laboratory, three hours; five field weekends. Identification, distribution, diversity of native plants and communities; identification and interpretation of rocks, minerals, and geologic features and geologic history of physiographic regions of Southern California. Emphasis on field-based learning.EPS SCI 51Mineralogy: Earth and Planetary Materials
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 1. Recommended: completion of chemistry requirement. Principles of mineralogy. Mineral structure and bonding and crystal chemistry, with focus on materials of interest for Earth and planetary sciences and major rock-forming minerals. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI 61Geologic Maps
Sign upLecture, two hours; laboratory, three hours; five field days. Enforced requisite: course 1. Planning, creation, and interpretation of geologic maps, including both practical and philosophical problems that arise. Topographic and geologic mapping in field. Interpretation of published maps in laboratory. P/NP or letter grading.EPS SCI M71Introduction to Computing for Geoscientists
Sign up(Same as Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences M71.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, 90 minutes; outside computing study, six to 10 hours. Introduction to writing programs, visualization of geoscience data, and comparison with models. P/NP or letter grading.
LIFESCI14 courses
LIFESCI 3HIntroduction to Molecular Biology (Honors)
Sign upLecture, two and one half hours; discussion, 90 minutes; movie section, two and one half hours. Enforced requisites: course 2, and Chemistry 14C or 30A. Honors course parallel to course 3, but at a more advanced level. Letter grading.LIFESCI 4ACollaborative Learning Workshop
Sign upLecture, two hours. Enforced corequisite: course 4. Development of problem-solving skills and intuition in genetics in collaborative learning environment. P/NP grading.LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, 75 minutes. Introduction to basic principles of cell structure and cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. P/NP or letter grading.LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, 80 minutes. Enforced requisite: course 7A. Principles of Mendelian inheritance and population genetics. Letter grading.LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, 75 minutes. Enforced requisite: course 7B. Organization of cells into tissues and organs and principles of physiology of organ systems. Introduction to human genetics and genomics. Letter grading.LIFESCI 15Life: Concepts and Issues
Sign upLecture, two and one half hours; discussion, 75 minutes. Introduction to important concepts and issues in the field for non-life sciences majors. Topics include chemistry of life, genetics, physiology, evolution, and ecology--all explored in lecture and debates, with writing component. P/NP or letter grading.LIFESCI 15LLife: Concepts and Issues Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory, two hours. Requisite or corequisite: course 15. Broad introduction to biology, with focus on scientific literacy and thinking. Letter grading.LIFESCI 20Quantitative Concepts for Life Sciences
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics (to algebra II), some basic familiarity with computers. Introduction to variety of quantitative concepts that are relevant to biology. Biological examples used throughout to gain appreciation of relevance of mathematics to biology.LIFESCI 23LIntroduction to Laboratory and Scientific Methodology
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Requisite: course 2 or 7B. Recommended to be taken concurrently with course 7C. Introductory life sciences laboratory designed for undergraduate students. Opportunity to conduct wet-laboratory and cutting-edge bioinformatics laboratory experiments. Letter grading.LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics (to algebra II), some basic familiarity with computers. Mathematical modeling as tool for understanding dynamics of biological systems. Use of free computer program Sage for problem solving, plotting, and dynamical simulation in laboratory.LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 30A. Introduction to concept of matrices and linear transformations to equip students with some basic tools to understand dynamics of multivariable nonlinear systems. Examples from ecological, physiological, chemical, and other systems. Letter grading.LIFESCI M32Essential Calculus for Mathematical Biologists
Sign up(Same as Computational and Systems Biology M32 and Mathematics M32T.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 30A, 30B. Not open to students with credit for Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, or 32B. Designed for life sciences students. P/NP or letter grading.LIFESCI 40Statistics of Biological Systems
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 30A. Designed for life sciences students. Introduction to statistics with emphasis on computer simulation of chance probabilities as replacement for traditional formula-based approach. Letter grading.LIFESCI 107Genetics
Sign upAdvanced Mendelian genetics, recombination, biochemical genetics, mutation, DNA, genetic code, gene regulation, genes in populations.
MATH22 courses
MATH 1Precalculus
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics. Requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test. Function concept. Linear and polynomial functions and their graphs, applications to optimization. Inverse, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Trigonometric functions.MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: three and one half years of high school mathematics (including trigonometry). Enforced requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test (score of 48 or better) or course 1 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 3A with grade of C- or better. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 31B. Applications of differentiation, integration, differential equations, linear models in biology, phase lines and classifying equilibrium values, bifurcations. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 3B with grade of C- or better. Multivariable modeling, matrices and vectors, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, linear and nonlinear systems of differential equations, probabilistic applications of integration. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 11NGateway to Mathematics: Number Theory
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B. Introductory number theory course for freshmen and sophomores. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: at least three and one half years of high school mathematics (including some coordinate geometry and trigonometry). Requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test or course 1 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 31ALDifferential and Integral Calculus Laboratory
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, one hour. Preparation: at least three and one-half years of high school mathematics (including some coordinate geometry and trigonometry). Requisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test or course 1 with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 31A with grade of C- or better. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3B. Transcendental functions; methods and applications of integration; sequences and series. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 31BHIntegration and Infinite Series (Honors)
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 31A with grade of B or better. Honors course parallel to course 31B. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 31ECalculus for Economics Students
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 31A with grade of C- or better. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3B, 3C, or 31B. Calculus for applications to economics. Partial differentiation, implicit functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, extrema, optimization, constrained optimization.MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 31A with grade of C- or better. Introduction to differential calculus of several variables, vector field theory. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 32AHCalculus of Several Variables (Honors)
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 31A with grade of B or better. Honors course parallel to course 32A. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 31B and 32A, with grades of C- or better. Introduction to integral calculus of several variables, line and surface integrals. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 32BHCalculus of Several Variables (Honors)
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 31B and 32A, with grades of B or better. Honors course parallel to course 32B. P/NP or letter grading.MATH M32TEssential Calculus for Mathematical Biologists
Sign up(Same as Computational and Systems Biology M32 and Life Sciences M32.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A, 30B. Not open to students with credit for course 31A, 31B, 32A, or 32B. Designed for life sciences students. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 3B or 31B or 32A with grade of C- or better. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 33AHLinear Algebra and Applications (Honors)
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 3B or 31B or 32A with grade of B or better. Honors course parallel to course 33A. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 33BDifferential Equations
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 31B with grade of C- or better. Highly recommended: course 33A. First-order, linear differential equations; second-order, linear differential equations with constant coefficients; power series solutions; linear systems. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 42Introduction to Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling: Life, Universe, and Everything
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, one statistics course from Statistics 10, 12, 13, one programming course from Computer Science 31, Program in Computing 10A, Statistics 20. Examples drawn from many fields and practice problems from Mathematical Contest in Modeling.MATH 61Introduction to Discrete Structures
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 180 or 184. Discrete structures commonly used in computer science and mathematics, including sets and relations, permutations and combinations, graphs and trees, induction. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 70Introduction to Probability
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B. Introduction to probability through applications and examples. In-depth discussion of betting schemes in gambling, occurrence of rare events, coincidences, and statistical predictions. P/NP or letter grading.MATH 131AAnalysis
Sign upRigorous introduction to foundations of real analysis; real numbers, point set topology in Euclidean space, functions, continuity.
MECH&AE1 course
MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
Sign up(Same as Civil Engineering M20.) Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: Mathematics 33A. Fundamentals of computer programming taught in context of MATLAB computing environment. Basic data types and control structures. Input/output. Functions. Data visualization.
MGMT2 courses
MGMT 1APrinciples of Accounting
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to freshmen. Introduction to financial accounting principles, including preparation and analysis of financial transactions and financial statements. Current liabilities. P/NP or letter grading.MGMT 1BPrinciples of Accounting
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 1A. Not open to freshmen. Completion of balance sheet with emphasis on debt and equity, including in-depth introduction to time value of money concepts. Introduction to partnership and individual income tax accounting. P/NP or letter grading.
MIMG4 courses
MIMG 5Science of Memory and Learning
Sign upLecture, seven hours. Nature of intelligence, overview of brain structure, study of memory systems, including memory retrieval, context of memories with emotion, sleep, and memory. Survey of metacognition and performance of learning. Offered in summer only. P/NP or letter grading.MIMG 6Microbiology for Nonmajors
Sign upLecture, four hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 101. Designed for nonscience students; introduction to biology of microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, protozoa, algae, fungi), their significance as model systems for understanding fundamental cellular processes, and their role in human affairs.MIMG 10Medical Microbiology for Nursing Students
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: Life Sciences 30A or 30B or Mathematics 3A or 31A. Limited to Nursing majors. Introduction to biology of microbial pathogens, their role in development of human immune response, and presentation of symptoms and disease caused by microbial infections. Letter grading.MIMG 15Nanoscale Microscopy Laboratory
Sign upLecture, 26 hours; laboratory, nine hours. Recommended requisites: high school biology, chemistry, and physics. Designed as one-week summer course for high school students. Exploratory introduction to three key microscopy techniques for nanoscience research: fluorescence microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, and electron microscopy.
PHYSCI5 courses
PHYSCI 3Introduction to Human Physiology
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Not open to Physiological Science majors. Courses 3 and 5 may be taken independently, concurrently, or in either sequence. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSCI 5Issues in Human Physiology: Diet and Exercise
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, 30 minutes; laboratory, 90 minutes. Not open to Physiological Science majors. Basic introduction to principles of human biology, with special emphasis on roles that exercise and nutrition play in health, and prevention and management of such illnesses as hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.PHYSCI 6The Human Machine: Physiological Processes
Sign upNot open to Physiological Science majors. General introduction to human musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems and their function, with special emphasis on mechanical and physiological aspects of homeostasis and environmental interaction. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSCI 7Science and Food: Physical and Molecular Origins of What We Eat
Sign upLecture, three hours; laboratory, two and one half hours. Preparation: high school chemistry, mathematics, physics. Letter grading.PHYSCI 13Introduction to Human Anatomy
Sign upLecture, four hours; laboratory, five hours. Not open to Physiological Science majors. Structural survey of human body, including skeletomuscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and genitourinary systems. Laboratory includes examination of human cadaver specimens. Letter grading.
PHYSICS17 courses
PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
Sign upLecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32A. Motion, Newton laws, work, energy, linear and angular momentum, rotation, equilibrium, gravitation. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
Sign upLecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32A. Recommended corequisite: Mathematics 32B. Enriched preparation for upper-division physics courses. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
Sign upLecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 1A, Mathematics 31B, 32A. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32B. Fluid mechanics, oscillation, mechanical waves, and sound. Electric charge, field and potential, capacitors, and dielectrics. Currents and resistance, direct-current circuits.PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
Sign upLecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 1AH or 1A, Mathematics 31B, 32A. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32B. Recommended corequisite: Mathematics 33A. Enriched preparation for upper-division physics courses. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
Sign upLecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 1A, 1B, Mathematics 32A, 32B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 33A. Magnetic fields, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, inductance, and alternating current circuits. Special relativity. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
Sign upLecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 1AH or 1A, 1BH or 1B, Mathematics 32A, 32B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 33A. Recommended corequisite: Mathematics 33B. Enriched preparation for upper-division physics courses. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 4ALPhysics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
Sign upLaboratory, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 1A or 1AH. Enforced corequisite: course 1B or 1BH. Computerized measurements of uniform and accelerated motion, including oscillations. Analysis of data and comparison of results to predictions, including least-squares fitting. Letter grading.PHYSICS 4BLPhysics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity and Magnetism
Sign upLaboratory, four hours. Enforced requisites: courses 1A or 1AH, 1B or 1BH. Enforced corequisite: course 1C or 1CH. Sound waves and electric circuits, taken by digital oscilloscopes and analyzed by Fourier transformation. Geometrical and physical optics. Letter grading.PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A, 30B, or Mathematics 3A, 3B, 3C (3C may be taken concurrently). Statics and dynamics of forces, motion, energy, including thermal energy, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 5A. Thermal properties of matter, free energy, fluids, ideal gas, diffusion, oscillations, waves, sounds, light, and optics, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 5A. Electrostatics in vacuum and in water. Electricity, circuits, magnetism, quantum, atomic and nuclear physics, radioactivity, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. P/NP or letter grading.PHYSICS 10Physics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1A, 1AH, 5A, or 6A. Special mathematical preparation beyond that necessary for admission to University in freshman standing not required. As time permits, development of physical ideas placed in cultural and historical perspective.PHYSICS 11Revolutions in Physics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of modern physics intended for general UCLA students. Overview of classical physics from late 19th century and its growing set of dilemmas. Revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics that have led to much deeper understanding of structure and evolution of our Universe.PHYSICS 12Physics of Sustainable Energy
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Special mathematical preparation beyond that necessary for admission to UCLA in freshman standing not required. Discussion of physics underpinnings of energy sources and consumption, with emphasis on renewables. Global view of energy balance in our lives from point of view of physical processes.PHYSICS 17Modern Physics
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH). Corequisite: course 32. Photons, black-body radiation, photoelectric effect, uncertainty principle, Bohr atom, Schrödinger equation, hydrogen atom, and selected topics in atomic, solid-state, nuclear, and particle physics.PHYSICS 18LModern Physics Laboratory
Sign upLecture, one hour; laboratory, six hours. Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH), 4AL, 4BL, 17. Experiments on radioactivity, scattering, Planck constant, superconductivity, superfluidity. Letter grading.PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, 1CH), Mathematics 32A, 32B, 33A. Corequisite: Mathematics 33B. Vectors and fields; operators and transformations; matrices, tensors, and differential forms; ordinary differential equations and integral theorems; Fourier transform.
PSYCH5 courses
PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
Sign upLecture, four hours. General introduction including topics in cognitive, experimental, personality, developmental, social, and clinical psychology; six hours of psychological research and a grade of C or better required of all departmental premajors. P/NP or letter grading.PSYCH 15Introductory Psychobiology
Sign upLecture, three hours. Designed for nonmajors. Survey of genetic, evolutionary, physiological, pharmacological, and experiential factors affecting behavior. Using comparative approach where appropriate, emphasis on relevance of biological mechanisms to understanding of humans and their interaction with their environment.PSYCH 20AMATLAB Programming for Behavioral Sciences
Sign upLecture, two hours; laboratory, one hour. Prior programming experience not required. Introduction to MATLAB and programming methods useful in experimental psychology. Reading and writing of code for conducting experiments, analyzing data, and modeling. P/NP or letter grading.PSYCH 20BAdvanced Topics in MATLAB Programming for Behavioral Sciences
Sign upLecture, two hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 20A. Introduction of advanced topics in MATLAB programming for behavioral sciences, including Psychtoolbox, advanced MATLAB graphics and input/out, simulations and modeling, and efficient MATLAB coding. Active programming during class and for homework required.PSYCH 30Web Programming for Psychology
Sign upLecture, one hours; laboratory, three hours. Introduction to core technologies of Internet, with focus on applications that collect and analyze data. Server side programming includes Perl and MYSQL databases. Client side programming includes HTML and Javascript. P/NP or letter grading.
SOCIOL9 courses
SOCIOL 1Introductory Sociology
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of characteristics of social life, processes of social interaction, and tools of sociological investigation. P/NP or letter grading.SOCIOL M5Social Organization of Black Communities
Sign up(Same as African American Studies M5.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; field trips. Analysis and interpretation of social organization of black communities, with focus on origins and development of black communities, competing theories and research findings, defining characteristics and contemporary issues. Letter grading.SOCIOL 10Social Thought and Origins of Sociology
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of social thought, with special emphasis on theoretical precursors to development of discipline of sociology. Exposition and analysis of selected social theorists and concepts, especially from the 17th to 19th centuries. Letter grading.SOCIOL 20Introduction to Sociological Research Methods
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to methods used in contemporary sociological research, with focus on issues of research design, data collection, and analysis of data. Fieldwork may be required. Letter grading.SOCIOL 40American Racism: Psychosocial Analysis
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of long-standing history of American racism, beginning with institution of slavery, Jim Crow legislation, separate but equal doctrine, Brown versus Board of Education, Civil Rights legislation of 1960s, and Obama presidency. P/NP or letter grading.SOCIOL 51Sociology of Migration
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to fundamental theories, themes, and research methods used in sociological research through comparative study of international migration. Letter grading.SOCIOL M72ASex from Biology to Gendered Society
Sign up(Same as Communication M72A, Clusters M72A, and Society and Genetics M72A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M72A is enforced requisite to M72B, which is enforced requisite to M72CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Letter grading.SOCIOL M72BSex from Biology to Gendered Society
Sign up(Same as Communication M72B, Clusters M72B, and Society and Genetics M72B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course M72A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Letter grading.SOCIOL M72CWSex from Biology to Gendered Society: Special Topics
Sign up(Same as Communication M72CW, Clusters M72CW, and Society and Genetics M72CW.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course M72B. Limited to first-year freshmen. Topics may include politics of reproduction, sexuality, sexual identity, social construction of gender, and reproductive technologies. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
STATS8 courses
STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; computer laboratory, two hours. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 12, 13, or 15. P/NP or letter grading.STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studies
Sign upLecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 10, 11, or 13. Introduction to statistical thinking and understanding, with emphasis on techniques used in geography and environmental science. P/NP or letter grading.STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 10, 10H, 11, 12, or 14. P/NP or letter grading.STATS 15Introduction to Data Science
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; computer laboratory, one hour. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics. Not open to students with credit for course 10, 12, 13, or former course 10H, 11, or 14. P/NP or letter grading.STATS 20Introduction to Statistical Programming with R
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: one course from course 10, 12, 13, 15, Economics 41, or Psychology 100A, or score of 4 or higher on Advanced Placement Statistics Examination. Designed to prepare students for upper-division work in statistics. P/NP or letter grading.STATS 21Python and Other Technologies for Data Science
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 20. Covers use of Python and other technologies for data analysis and data science. Other technologies covered include Jupyter notebook and Git. Intended for Data Theory majors as introduction to Python language and libraries most frequently used in data science.STATS 35Introduction to Probability with Applications to Poker
Sign upLecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of some main topics in introductory probability theory, especially discrete probability problems, that are useful in wide variety of scientific applications. P/NP or letter grading.STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
Sign upProbability distributions, random variables, vectors, and expectation.
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