Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Provides a basic understanding of the structural organization (anatomy), function (physiology), and neural controls of the structures used to produce speech, swallowing, respiration, and related behaviors in humans. Recommended prereq., SLHS 3106. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of SLHS 2010 (minimum grade C-).
Continues training in the four language skills (writing, speaking, reading, listening/comprehension) at an advanced level. Enables students to acquire a better and broader understanding of Arabic culture and texts drawn from various genres of Arabic letters. Formerly ARAB 3020. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ARAB 3110 (minimum grade C).
Surveys 19th and 20th century French literature. Close reading of selected texts of the principal writers and schools. Required for majors. May be taken before, after, or with FREN 3110. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of FREN 3100 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
This course is the continuation of FRSI 3110. The focus will be on the reading and discussion of canonical literary texts as well as on language and media. Students continue developing speaking and listening skills through activities based on the readings and develop the ability to write short papers (3-5 pages) in Farsi. Formerly FRSI 3120. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FRSI 3110 (minimum grade C).
Covers geometrical techniques for describing and illustrating geological structures. Major topics include graphic methods and geometry of fractures and folds. Department enforced prereqs., GEOL 1010 and GEOL 2001 and either GEOL 2005 or GEOL 2700.
Examines selected literary texts of various periods. Emphasizes longer texts and critical skills. May be taken either before or after GRMN 3110. Department enforced prereq., GRMN 2020 (minimum grade C-).
Continuation of HIND 3110. Emphasizes reading, listening, and speaking fluency in Hindi-Urdu, with a focus on literary, cinematic and cultural themes in modern and contemporary Hindi-Urdu media and culture. Thematic focus of the course may change each semester. An effort will be made to encourage students to put their language skills into literary and cultural context. Formerly HIND 3020. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of HIND 3110 (minimum grade C).
Continuation of JPNS 3110. Enhances student competence and performance in Japanese language in a holistic and integrative manner. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of JPNS 3110 (minimum grade C).
This second semester of Korean offers advanced level speaking and writing. Focuses on understanding contemporary Korean languages as reflected in various communication media, such as print, TV, and films to help students understand Korean in a variety of contexts. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of KREN 3110 (minimum grade C).
Engages the students in daily projects and occasional in-class labs designed to strengthen and expand knowledge of the topics in secondary mathematics, focusing especially on topics from algebra, precalculus and calculus. Projects and labs involve the use of multiple representations, transformations, data analysis techniques and interconnections among ideas from geometry, algebra, probability and calculus. Department enforced prereq., MATH 1300 or MATH 1310 or APPM 1350 (minimum grade C-). Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of MATH 2001 (minimum grade C-).
Analysis of texts from morphological and syntactic perspectives. Structural and semantic characteristics of major features of Spanish are studied at the sentence level. Use of these grammatical features is then studied in selected literary texts. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 3000 (minimum grade C-).
Reading of selections from Homer or a Greek tragedy in ancient Greek, with attention to literary form and context as well as advanced grammar and syntax. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., GREK 1013, 1023 and 3113. Formerly CLAS 3123.
Analyzes employment, or the threat of employing force, in securing American interests in the post-Cold War world. Gives special attention to utilities claimed for nuclear weapons, and alternatively, to weapons control and disarmament. Recommended prereq., PSCI 2223.
Focuses on the production of works of art outside of the traditional studio, museum and gallery. Projects in this course will be designed to interrupt, intervene, co-opt, provide a service, exist for a defined amount of time, or engage a site, community or situation. This course will include lectures, readings and discussions, writing assignments, studio projects, and visual presentations. Recommended prereq., ARTS 2504. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ARTS 1010 and 1020 (all minimum grade D-).
Uses the example of man-made climate change to develop an analytical understanding of the Earth system (solid, fluid, and living) that can be used to interpret the complex and uncertain forecast. Emphasis is given to the concepts of forcing, feedback and response in order to examine natural vs. man-made environmental changes and climate change mitigation strategies.
Examines selected interdisciplinary texts from the German literary and philosophical tradition. Topics address issues central to philosophical inquiry, and may include knowledge and its limits, mind and body, determinism and free will, reason and religious belief, and ethical problems. Department enforced prereq., GRMN 2020 or 2030 (minimum grade C-).
Examines basic properties of systems of linear equations, vector spaces, inner products, linear independence, dimension, linear transformations, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues, eigenvectors and diagonalization. Credit not granted for this course and MATH 3135 or APPM 3310. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of MATH 2300 or APPM 1360 (minimum grade C-).
Introduces students to a diverse array of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of human emotion. Evolutionary theories of anger, love, and disgust; emotion and morality; cultural and gender differences; emotion and the brain; relation between emotion and thinking; development of emotion; and abnormal emotions in mental illness. Recommended prereq., PSYC 1001. Requisites: Restricted to students with a minimum of 45 units.
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Similar to MATH 3130, but with an increased emphasis on proofs of the underlying theory. Prereq., MATH 2300 or APPM 1360 and MATH 2001. Credit not granted for this course and MATH 3130 or APPM 3130.
Examines the central dogma of biology by discussing the most important molecules in cells (DNA, RNA, and protein) and how their synthesis (DNA replication, transcription, RNA processing, and translation) is regulated. Incorporated into the discussion is how recombinant DNA techniques are used to discover and dissect cellular processes, how to design and interpret experiments, and understanding the limits of experiments to draw conclusions. These principles are the foundation for subsequent examination of intracellular mechanisms in MCDB 3145. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of MCDB 2150 or EBIO 2070 and CHEM 1113 or CHEM 1251 or CHEN 1211 (all minimum grade C-).
Provides insight into the present socioeconomic condition of Chicanas and the concept of feminismo through interdisciplinary study of history, sociology, literary images, and film portrayals. Recommended prereq., ETHN 2001 or ETHN 2536. Same as ETHN 3136. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
