Jun 21, 2024  
2018-2019 Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Lower Division Courses numbered 1–99 are designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all students for lower division credit. (Graduate students requesting to enroll in lower-division undergraduate courses will not receive unit credit nor will the course fulfill degree requirements.) Upper Division Courses courses numbered 100–199 are open to all students who have met the necessary prerequisites as indicated in the catalog course description. Preparation should generally include completion of one lower division course in the given subject or completion of two years of college work.

GRADUATE COURSES

Courses numbered 200–299 are open to graduate students. (Undergraduate students must obtain the signature of the instructor, School Dean, and the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate level units will count towards the required 120 units for graduation; however students are urged to meet with their academic advisor in order to determine if graduate course units may be used to fulfill a graduation requirement.)

CROSS-LISTED/CONJOINED COURSES

Cross-listed Courses are the same course offered under different course subjects at the same level (either undergraduate or graduate) that share the same meeting time, requirements, units, etc. Conjoined Courses are the same course but one is undergraduate and one is graduate.

COREQUISITE COURSE

A corequisite course is a course that must be taken at the same time as another course.

PREREQUISITES

Prerequisites for courses should be followed carefully; the responsibility for meeting these requirements rests on the student. If you can demonstrate that your preparation is equivalent to that specified by the prerequisites, the instructor may waive these requirements for you. The instructor also may request that a student who has not completed the prerequisites be dropped from the course. If the prerequisite for a course is not satisfied, students must obtain the approval of the instructor (or school designee) of the course they wish to take.

For all undergraduate courses a “C-” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “P/NP” grade then a “P” grade is required.

For all graduate courses a “B” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “S/U” grade then a “S” grade is required.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

No credit is allowed for completing a less advanced course after successful completion (C-or better) of a more advanced course in the foreign languages. This applies only to lower division foreign language courses, not upper division courses. 

GRADING OPTIONS

Unless otherwise stated in the course description, each course is letter graded with a P/NP or S/U option (unless required for your major or graduate program). The policy regarding Grading Options , can be found in an alternate section of the catalog.

More information about Course Substitutions  and Course Materials and Services Fees  can be found in alternate areas of the catalog.

 

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  
  • EECS 277: Database Systems Implementation


    Units: 4

    Studies the internals of a database management system, with emphasis on query execution. The final goal of the class is to build a fully-functional database execution engine consisting of all the standard components: storage manager, buffer manager, query execution engine, query optimizer, and query compiler.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: CSE 177
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: CSE 031
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 278: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms


    Units: 4

    Design and analysis of algorithms plays an increasingly important role in modern science and engineering. Introduces advanced techniques for algorithm design and analysis and covers introductory computational complexity, combinatorial optimization, and online/approximation/randomized/big data algorithms.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 279: Approximation Algorithms


    Units: 4

    Optimization problems are prevalent in many disciplines, and computer science is no exception. Unfortunately, numerous optimization problems are computationally hard (e.g. NP-hard), hence resist efficient algorithms. Covers various approximation algorithms which are polynomial time heuristics that aim to give a solution close to the optimum for all inputs.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No
    Knowledge of Algorithm Design and Analysis, or an equivalent course, strongly recommended


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  • EECS 280: Advanced Topics in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems


    Units: 4

    Overview of Internet development history and fundamental principles underlying TCP/IP protocol design. Discussion of current networking and distributed systems research topics, including latest research results in routing protocols, transport protocols, network measurements, network security protocols, and clean-slate approach to network architecture design. Fundamental issues in network protocol design and implementations applied to a variety of different applications and environments.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 6

    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • IGP Elec Eng & Computer Sci (Graduate) - IGEC

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 281: Advanced Topics in Robotics


    Units: 4

    Contemporary issues in mobile robotics. Topics include but are not limited to: cooperative mobile robotics, mathematical models for complex tasks (e.g. manipulation), humanoid robotics, human-robot interfaces, robot hardware and middleware.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 3

    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: EECS 270
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 282: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning


    Units: 4

    Reviews advanced topics in machine learning. Each edition of the course will focus on a different topic. It will consist of formal lectures, presentation and discussion of papers, and implementation of algorithms in Matlab or C.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • EECS 283: Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems


    Units: 4

    Research in intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary and its foundation can be found from fields such as estimation, communication, and control. Other areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, networking, robotics, security, and signal processing are also highly related. This class will review the most current results in intelligent systems and help students prepare for research in intelligent systems. Topics will vary from semester to semester.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 6

    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: MATH 032 and MATH 141
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 284: Big Data Systems and Analytics


    Units: 4

    Aims to familiarize students with techniques for processing large amounts of data. Starting with the latest innovations in hardware, data processing architectures are presented as well as algorithms for managing large quantities of data. Although the main focus is data analytics, significant attention is dedicated to transactional processing.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No
    Background in computer architecture, computer system design concepts, and algorithm fundamentals required


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  • EECS 285: Advanced Topics in Motion Planning


    Units: 4

    Covers advanced algorithms in the motion planning research domain and reviews selected topics in applications to robotics, computer animation, cognitive science and/or bioinformatics. Includes development of a significant programming project and student-led seminars.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall

    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes
    Consolidated programming skills, and notions of computer graphics and robotics recommended


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  • EECS 286: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision


    Lower Unit Limit: 2
    Upper Unit Limit: 4

    Current and advanced topics in computer vision. Students develop verbal and written presentation skills through critical evaluation of seminal works.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 6

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: CSE 185
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 287: Computer Animation and Simulation


    Units: 4

    Reviews the main topics in computer animation, including: key frame animation and motion capture, direct and inverse kinematics, physics-based animation, particle systems and deformable surfaces, rigid body simulation, collision detection and motion planning. Includes development of programming projects and student-led paper presentations.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: CSE 171
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes
    Consolidated programming skills and notions of computer graphics required


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  • EECS 288: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing


    Units: 4

    Reviews advanced topics in high performance computing. Consists of formal lectures, presentation and discussion of papers, and research projects. Students will gain research experience on modern loarge-scale parallel systems.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No
    Prior knowledge in Parallel Computing is suggested for successful completion of this course.


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  • EECS 289: Topics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 3

    Under faculty supervision, group of students meets each week for a semester in a student-led study group to pursue a specific topic of their choice that is not covered in other department courses.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 290: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Seminar


    Units: 1

    This invited speaker seminar course gives electrical engineering and computer science graduate students breadth exposure to all the areas in the field.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 12

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • IGP Elec Eng & Computer Sci (Graduate) - IGEC

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • EECS 295: Graduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 12

    Supervised research in computer science.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • EECS 298: Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 12

    Group project under faculty supervision.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • EECS 299: Directed Independent Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 12

    Independent project under faculty supervision.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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Engineering

  
  • ENGR 040: History of Technology in Society I


    Units: 4

    Starting from the Paleolithic period and moving forward to the end of the 18th century and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, examines the process of technological change and its relationship to societal change.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: HIST 040
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 041: History of Technology in Society II


    Units: 4

    Starting from the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century and moving to the present, examines the process of technological change and its relationship to societal change.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: HIST 041
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 045: Introduction to Materials


    Units: 4

    Relationship between the structure, processing, properties, and performance of materials. The application of physical and chemical principles in the context of engineering materials: atomic bonding, crystal structure, defects, thermodynamics, and kinetics.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 050: Statics


    Units: 2

    Fundamental concepts of mechanics, including statics, dynamics, and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 052: Computer Modeling and Analysis


    Units: 3

    Basic tools needed for the design and analysis of engineering systems, including data collection, basic algorithm design, implementation and testing, and systems simulation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 053: Materials and the Environment


    Units: 3

    Impact of materials mining, processing, synthesis, use, and disposal on the environment, including cost-benefit analyses of environmentally “friendly” vs. “unfriendly” materials. Energy properties, cost, durability, disposal, and other considerations in materials selection. Materials challenges in fuel cell, battery, solar, and water filtration applications. Environmental costs and benefits of emerging nanotechnologies.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam) and (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 057: Statics and Dynamics


    Units: 4

    Fundamentals of statics. Kinematics and equations of motion of a particle for rectilinear and curvilinear motion. Planar kinematics of rigid bodies. Kinetics for planar motion of rigid bodies, including equations of motion and principles of energy and momentum.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or PHYS 018 or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 065: Circuit Theory


    Units: 4

    Offers essential foundations for engineering students to analyze basic circuits and signals in circuit systems. Static and dynamic circuit analysis using Laplace transforms; active circuits involving operational amplifiers. Signal classifications, representations using Fourier transform, filtering, sampling process. Time and frequency domain responses.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: MATH 024 and (PHYS 009 or PHYS 009H or PHYS 019)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 095: Lower Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 4

    Laboratory, field, theoretical, and/or computational research under the supervision of a faculty member on a topic of mutual interest and appropriate to class standing. A written report is required.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 6

    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 097: Engineering Service Learning


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 2

    Multi-disciplinary student teams working with community organizations to design, build, test and implement solutions to real-world problems. Students gain experience in regard to functioning effectively in a work environment with peers and clients, and insight into the design and development process.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 4

    Crosslisted with: ENGR 197, MGMT 097, MGMT 197
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Freshman
    • Sophomore

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 098: Lower Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 099: Lower Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 108: BioEntrepreneurship


    Units: 3

    Introduces upper division undergraduate and graduate students to entrepreneurship. We start with a history of biotechnology and medical devices which hopefully inspires them to integrate entrepreneurship with engineering and/or life sciences. We work through case studies of start-up companies (including Genentech) brainstorm ideas about new inventions, and walk them through the requisite steps to start a new business venture (IP issues, team formation, raising capital).

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 120: Fluid Mechanics


    Units: 4

    Introduction to and application of the mechanics of fluids and fluid flow in natural and engineered systems.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 057
    Concurrent Prerequisites: MATH 024
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 130: Thermodynamics


    Units: 3

    Fundamentals of equilibrium, temperature, energy, and entropy. Equations of state and thermodynamic properties, with engineering applications.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 023 or MATH 023H) and MATH 024 and (PHYS 009 or PHYS 009H
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 135: Heat Transfer


    Units: 4

    Study of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, with applications to engineering problems.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 120 and ENGR 130 and MATH 131
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 140: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming


    Units: 4

    Topics include object-oriented programming concepts, such as classes, objects, methods, interfaces, packages, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: CSE 165
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (CSE 020 or equivalent exam) and (CSE 021 or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 141: Environmental Science and Policy


    Units: 4

    In depth-analysis of environmental case studies. Focus on science critical to policy development and implementation, the policy-making process, and policy outcomes. Special emphasis on interaction between scientific information and policy-making. Example topics include Western water resources, biodiversity conservation, and global warming. Emphasis on written and oral communication and critical analysis.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: ESS 141, GEOG 141
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (WRI 010 or equivalent exam) and any lower-division BIO, ECON, ENVE, ESS, POLI, or PUBP course or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 151: Strength of Materials


    Units: 4

    Fundamental concepts of how objects deform or fail under loading, and related concepts by analyzing stretching, bending and torsion of beams/ rods along with their stress and strain analysis; Stress and strain analysis in pressure vessels; strength and elastic instability (buckling).

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 057 and ENGR 045
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 155: Engineering Economic Analysis


    Units: 3

    Microeconomic principles and methods. Time value of money, interest and equivalences, analysis of economic alternatives, depreciation, inflation and taxes, estimates of demand, cost and risk, decision theory.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 158: Service Innovation


    Units: 4

    Focuses on service innovation, generation of new successful service ventures. Helps students gain the skills necessary to be successful in three main aspects of service production and delivery systems: the back office, the front office, and service design.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: MGMT 158, MIST 133
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 166: Analog and Digital Electronics


    Units: 3

    Intended for the upper division engineering student to facilitate the student’s development into bioengineering investigation. Designed to introduce fundamental principles of analog and digital electronics commonly used in biomedical research.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 065
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 170: Introduction to Electron Microscopy


    Units: 3

    Principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Emphasis upon practical applications.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 170L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory


    Units: 1

    Laboratory for principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Corequisite: ENGR 170
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 175: Information Systems for Management


    Units: 4

    Introduces organizational use of information systems and information technology, and discusses how these create value for organizations.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: MIST 175, MGMT 170
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Cognitive Science (Undergraduate) - COGS
    • Materials Sci & Engineering (Undergraduate) - MSE
    • Bioengineering (Undergraduate) - BENG
    • Environmental Engineering (Undergraduate) - ENVE
    • Management & Business Economics (Undergraduate) - MBE
    • Economics (Undergraduate) - ECON
    • Computer Science & Engineering (Undergraduate) - CSE
    • Mechanical Engineering (Undergraduate) - ME

    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 180: Spatial Analysis and Modeling


    Units: 4

    Principles of geographic information systems [GIS]; applications of GIS to environmental, water, and resource management issues; problem solving with GIS. Other topics include spatial analysis interpolation techniques and model integration.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: MATH 021 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 190: Engineering Capstone Design


    Units: 4

    Students will work on multidisciplinary teams on selected and approved design projects, practice design methodology, complete project feasibility study and preliminary design, including optimization, product reliability and liability, economics, and application of engineering codes. Final report and presentation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ME 120 and ENGR 135 and ME 137) or (ENVE 100 and ENVE 130, which may be taken concurrently, and ENVE 160, which may be taken concurrently, and ENVE 110) or (BIOE 100, which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 045 and (CHEM 008 or CHEM 008H) and ENGR 130 and BIOE 104 and ENGR 166) or (MSE 112 or MSE 113) or (ENGR 065 and CSE 100)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 191: Professional Seminar


    Units: 1

    Presentation and discussion to help prepare students to find an internship and/or entry-level job and succeed in a professional environment.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Bioengineering (Undergraduate) - BENG
    • Computer Science & Engineering (Undergraduate) - CSE
    • Environmental Engineering (Undergraduate) - ENVE
    • Materials Sci & Engineering (Undergraduate) - MSE
    • Mechanical Engineering (Undergraduate) - ME
    • Undeclared Engineering (Undergraduate) - UENG

    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 192: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists


    Units: 1

    Intended for undergraduate and graduate students who may pursue a career in research and technology. Examines the laws behind Intellectual Property, covering material on copyrights for technology protection, trademarks, trade secrets, patent information including the patenting process, claim drafting, design patents, engineering ethics, and more.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ENGR 292
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 193: Engineering Capstone Design I


    Units: 2

    Students work in multidisciplinary teams completing design projects presented by industrial partners. Teams focus on planning, concept, and system design.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENGR 166, which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 045 and BIOE 130 and BIOE 140) or (ME 120, which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 135, which may be taken concurrently, and ME 137), or ((ENVE 100 or ESS 100, which may be taken concurrently) and (ENVE 110 or ESS 100, which may be taken concurrently) and ENVE 130 and ENVE 160, any of which may be taken concurrently) or (MSE 112, which may be taken concurrently, and MSE 113, which may be taken concurrently)
    Cannot also be taken due to similarity of content: ENGR 190
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 194: Engineering Capstone Design II


    Units: 3

    Students work in multidisciplinary teams completing design projects presented by industrial partners. Teams focus on testing and prototyping.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 193
    Cannot also be taken due to similarity of content: ENGR 190
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 4

    Laboratory, field, theoretical, and/or computational research under the supervision of a faculty member on a topic of mutual interest and appropriate to class standing. A written report and oral presentation are required.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 6

    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 197: Engineering Service Learning


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 2

    Multi-disciplinary teams of freshman through senior students work with community organizations to design, build, and implement engineering-based solutions for real-world problems. Students gain insight into the design and development process.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 6

    Crosslisted with: ENGR 097, MGMT 097, MGMT 197
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 199: Upper Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 208: BioEntrepreneurship


    Units: 3

    Introduction for upper division undergraduate and graduate students to entrepreneurship. We start with a history of biotechnology and medical devices which inspires them to integrate entrepreneurship with engineering and/or life sciences. Case studies of start-up companies (including Genentech) brainstorm ideas about new inventions, and the requisite steps to start a new business venture (IP issues, team formation, raising capital).

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 270: Introduction to Electron Microscopy


    Units: 3

    Principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Emphasis upon practical applications. Graduate requirements include additional assignments, quiz problems, and a project.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 270L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory


    Units: 1

    Laboratory for principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Graduate requirements include additional laboratory reports and a research project.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 292: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists


    Units: 1

    Intended for undergraduate and graduate students who may pursue a career in research and technology. Examines the laws behind Intellectual Property, covering material on copyrights for technology protection, trademarks, trade secrets, patent information including the patenting process, claim drafting, design patents, engineering ethics, and more.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ENGR 192
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 295: Graduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Supervised research in engineering.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 298: Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Group project under faculty supervision.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Laboratory included
    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 299: Directed Independent Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Independent project under faculty supervision.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENG 010: Foundations of Literary Studies


    Units: 4

    An introduction to the craft of literary analysis, this course seeks to answer the following questions: What is “literature”? What does it mean to read well? How has the practice of reading changed over the years? What can the study of literature teach us about ourselves?

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 017: Why Harry Potter? Why Literature?


    Units: 4

    A study of Harry Potter novels, their literary ancestors, their popularity, and efforts to censor them. This study will enable students to investigate how authors and readers co-create meaning, how stories create individual and group identity, how stories elicit emotion, and how stories engage ethical questions.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 018: Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture


    Units: 4

    From Jack the Ripper to the Elephant Man, from venereal disease to self-murder, this course explores the nineteenth-century British obsession with crime and horror, with phenomena that rattle one’s sense of self.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 020: Introduction to Shakespeare


    Units: 4

    An introduction to the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare, as well as the world of Elizabethan England. Considers why Shakespeare’s works continue to be so popular, and students will both write about his works and act in or recite something he wrote.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 021: Jane Austen and Popular Culture


    Units: 4

    Explores Austen’s contribution to literary and cultural history and her enduring popularity, first through an examination of her novels, and then through a study of their remarkably prolific, creative, and diverse adaptations.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 030: Literature of Childhood


    Units: 4

    Reading includes books written for children: books that explore the hilarity of childhood, but also its poignancies; and books written for adults that use the idea of childhood to explore a variety of themes from poverty to race to gender.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 031: Introduction to African-American Literature and Culture


    Units: 4

    Examines the social thought, religious institutions, intellectual history, political challenges, literary traditions and expressive arts of people of African descent in the Americas. Among the focal points are the centrality of the African American experience to important legal, historical, political, and cultural developments in the formation of the United States.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 032: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences


    Units: 4

    Introduction to Chicano/a cultural practices and experiences, with emphasis on the ties between culture, race, gender, social class, language, historical developments, artistic and literary expression, migration and transculturation. We will analyze changes in Chicano/a culture and cultural practices as Chicanos/as adapted to different historical and social circumstances. Taught in English.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: CCST 060, SPAN 060
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 001 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 033: Literature and Sexuality


    Units: 4

    Over the last 300 years, “sexuality” has gradually displaced “soul” and “mind” as the most essential ingredient in modern subjectivity. How has Western literature grappled with, embraced, or resisted the sexualization of subjectivity? From Freud to Foucault, Sade to Nabokov, we will map the uneasy alliance between literature and sexuality.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 050: Readings in Close Reading


    Units: 4

    Intensive seminar on the history, practice, varieties, rise, fall, conflicts and anxieties of close reading in literature. Emphasis on the relationship of close reading to literature and literary theory. Required texts comprise important acts of close reading as well as primary texts that lend themselves to close reading.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 051: The Bible as Literature


    Units: 4

    A study of the Judeo-Christian Bible as literary text, of its influence on later works, and of issues of translation, politics, and canonization.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 052: Politics and Prose of the Nobel Prize in Literature


    Units: 4

    Delves into the art and politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature, reads major works of recent laureates, and contends with claims and imaginings of a universal canon, a new “literary space.”

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 054: Introduction to the American Novel


    Units: 4

    Survey of the novel in the United States in the 20th century with an emphasis on realism, modernism, naturalism, postmodernism, and innovations and reactions after the second World War. Examination of shifting representations of race, gender, class and sexuality in the novel amid political, cultural and social shifts.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 055: Introduction to the Short Story


    Units: 4

    Introduction to the development of the short story in 19th-, 20th- and 21st century literature. An emphasis will be placed on innovations in technique and craft, and the short story as a space for political, social and artistic transformation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 056: Introduction to World Drama


    Units: 4

    Read plays from across the globe and thousands of years, learning about the theatrical and historical contexts of each play. Students will explore this drama with their voices as well as their minds, performing in a scene and developing reading and writing skills.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 057: Introduction to Poetry


    Units: 4

    Teaches students how to read a poem. Equips students with the tools necessary to approach, evaluate, and enjoy this infamously peculiar and wonderful medium of language, reading everything from classic sonnets to cutting-edge poetry of today.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 058: Literature of the Natural Environment


    Units: 4

    Introduces students to literature about the natural environment. Surveys poetry, essays, and fiction while also keeping in mind specific developments in land uses and political responses to owning the environment. Explores a variety of genres and topics within the wide rubric of nature writing.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 059: Apocalyptic Literature


    Units: 4

    The question that this course’s texts will think about is none other than what happens when the world ends. This seminar will delve (without fear) into a diverse selection of historical and contemporary narratives of apocalypse and doomsday scenarios, while focusing on close reading and writing skills.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 062: Literature and Gender


    Units: 4

    Read several kinds of literature that deal with issues of gender, including works written by men and women in various times and places, and think about the way that gender is portrayed and performed by the narrators, speakers, and characters involved.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 064: LGBT Fiction


    Units: 4

    A study of classic works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century LGBT fiction, welcoming all students interested in the politics of identity, in representations of sexuality, and in edgy works of literature.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Concurrent Prerequisites: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 065: Literary Comedy


    Units: 4

    By reading various kinds of comedy in a variety of literary genres, try to examine humanity’s strange ability to take deep pleasure in disrupting the serious order of things. By reading theories of comedy, also investigate both the psychological and ethical dimensions of comedy.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 066: Literary Romance


    Units: 4

    Explores literary romances–adventure stories–written in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will encounter poems, plays, stories, and films that exhibit the properties of literary romance.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Concurrent Prerequisites: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 067: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables


    Units: 4

    Examines fables featuring talking creatures who implore human readers to examine their ethical and spiritual responsibility toward the environment, a fragile ecosystem that cannot endure society’s unsustainable practices.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 071: Literature of Illness and Disability


    Units: 4

    Explores the history of literary and medical representations of illness, physical disability, and cognitive diversity over the past three hundred years.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 090: Topics in Literature


    Units: 4

    Introduces students to the tasks of closely reading and writing about literature focused on a particular topic.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 1

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice


    Units: 4

    Introduction to issues and approaches in literary theory and criticism, with an emphasis on applications of methods to selected literary texts. Provides an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of the critical tradition as well its major movements, schools, thinkers, tensions, and interventions. Documents and critical readings prepare students for textual interpretation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: SPAN 100
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • English (Undergraduate) - ENG
    • Spanish (Undergraduate) - SPAN

    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660


    Units: 4

    Read about men who battle green knights, lovers who communicate through a swan, and a sympathetic Satan. Learn about England from the eighth through seventeenth centuries, the music and art of these periods, and the politics and religions that shape this literature.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 102: Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830


    Units: 4

    A transatlantic approach to the literature of what is often called the long eighteenth century, in which the court literature of the Restoration, the neoclassicism of the Augustans, and the anti-classicism of the Romantics all engage the major cultural changes of the Enlightenment.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 103: British and American Literature, 1830-1940


    Units: 4

    Explores the literary history of the British Isles and North America in the Great Age of Modernization. The period of the American Civil War, WW1, the Great Depression. The story of the women and men who write of the discombobulating experience of modern life.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present


    Units: 4

    Introduces students to an array of postcolonial/post-colonial and post-modern/ postmodern literature and theory that signifies, plays with and forms an inter-textual relationship with narratives they will have encountered in earlier surveys in the ENG 100s sequence. Students are encouraged to be as daring as the texts they encounter.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 105: Shakespeare’s Medieval Inheritance


    Units: 4

    Read a number of early English plays before exploring a selection of Shakespearean drama, to re-think this period of theatrical history. Consider the emergence of the public theatre, the impact of the Reformation, and the roles of memory and ritual.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 ENG 101 or ENG 020 or ENG 056 recommended
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 106: Early English Drama


    Units: 4

    Read medieval and Renaissance plays from a variety of genres, including mystery plays, moralities, musical interludes, comedies, and tragedies. Also learn about the theatrical, religious, social, and political contexts that surround these plays.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 107: “The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long Eighteenth Century


    Units: 4

    Reads works of Defoe, Pope, Swift, Equiano, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and others to explore how they cast skepticism on projects of human emancipation and called into question many of our cherished assumptions about the role of the Enlightenment in the larger narrative of Western history.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 108: Romanticism and Apocalypse


    Units: 4

    Treats contemporary apocalyptic anxieties as deeply rooted in the cultural and literary transformations that we now retrospectively call “British Romanticism.” Studies doomsday writing by Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Byron, PB Shelley, and Mary Shelley.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 109: Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature


    Units: 4

    Focuses on how representations of Islam were intimately woven into the fabric of 18th and 19th century English cultural and political life, calling into question entrenched notions that continuously cast Islam as an “unenlightened” and “terroristic” religion.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 113: U.S. Latino/a Literature


    Units: 4

    Representative overview of U.S. Latino literature, from colonial times to the present. Through the analysis of works from different genres, the student is exposed to the main themes, techniques, styles, etc. of some of the most influential Latino authors, including several writers from the Central Valley. Taught in English.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: SPAN 113
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: CCST 060 or SPAN 050 or SPAN 051 or SPAN 060 or ENG 032 or ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 or any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film


    Units: 4

    In-depth study of Latinos/as in children’s literature and film, with special attention to issues of representation and self-representation, reception, publishing, markets, stereotypes, historical evolution, bilingualism and other linguistic issues. Combines film analysis and literary criticism to explore how Latinos/as have been represented (and have represented themselves).

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: SPAN 114 
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: CCST 060 or SPAN 050 or SPAN 051 or SPAN 060 or ENG 032 or ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 or any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 115: Chicano/a Literature


    Units: 4

    Representative overview of Chicano/a literature, from colonial times to the present. Main aspects to be covered include: literary history, bilingualism and literature, ethnicity and race, gender parameters, the aesthetics of the borderlands, class and regional variations, migration and diaspora, children’s literature, among others. Taught in English.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: SPAN 115
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: CCST 060 or SPAN 050 or SPAN 051 or SPAN 060 or ENG 032 or ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 or any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 116: Literature and History of the 1960s


    Units: 4

    Examines factors within the United States, such as war protests, radical movements, and racial stands, which led to permanent changes in politics, society, and culture, and their literary and historical expression.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: HIST 135
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and (any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 or HIST 016 or HIST 017 or equivalent exam)
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 117: Literature of California


    Units: 4

    Through film, essays, poetry, and fiction (short and long) students will address California’s immigrant and migrant realities, acknowledge its economic turbulence, and explore the notion of a canonical literature focused on this hybrid and often confusing state.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 118: Literature and Philosophy


    Units: 4

    The history of ideas in the Western tradition has from its inception hosted a dynamic relationship between literature and philosophy. This course traces the genealogy of the relationship between literature and philosophy, as well as their intersections, tensions, affinities, and inter-textuality.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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