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2022-2023 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Education: Single Subject |
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EDSS 444 - Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Unit(s): 1-4
Students learn to organize curriculum, plan instruction and engage in formative assessment using appropriate content and language/literacy standards. Practices that support diverse learners in secondary classrooms are experienced, analyzed and approximated.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 417, EDSS 418, admission to the Single Subject Credential Program.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EDSS 446 - Language and Literacy Development in Secondary Classrooms
Unit(s): 4
Principles, methods, and materials for guiding disciplinary and digital literacy in secondary classroom settings. Includes development theory and current issues in reading/language pedagogy for first and second language learners.
Prerequisite(s): admission to the Single Subject or Education Specialist Credential Program, EDUC 417, EDSS 418, or permission of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EDSS 458 - Student Teaching in Multicultural Settings
Unit(s): 12
A supervised teaching experience in a multicultural middle, junior high, or senior high school setting under the guidance of a resident teacher and a University supervisor. Assignment consists of three teaching periods and two preparation periods daily. Two periods entail full student teaching responsibility as outlined in the Single Subject Handbook. The third period consists of assisting the resident teacher and/or limited teaching responsibilities in a supplemental authorization subject area. Student teachers may team teach in some or all of the classes.
Prerequisite(s): successful completion of all Phase I courses and successful presentation of a program portfolio. Co-requisite(s): EDSS 459
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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EDSS 459 - Seminar for Secondary Student Teachers
Unit(s): 4
This seminar supports student teacher candidates during their student teaching semester. The course provides opportunities for candidates to exhibit and examine their teaching competence in regard to classroom management, curricular planning, instructional strategies for diverse learners, assessment, and professional development. Candidates assemble a teaching portfolio. In addition, the weekly seminar prepares candidates for the PACT Teaching Event, a summative performance assessment of the candidate’s demonstrated ability to plan, implement, and assess a significant segment of teaching. Successful completion of the Teaching Event will be required to earn a California Preliminary Single Subject Credential.
Prerequisite(s): successful completion of all Phase I courses. Co-requisite(s): EDSS 458
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EDSS 495 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit up to 8 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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Education: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages |
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EDTE 540 - Theories and Research in Second Language Acquisition
Unit(s): 3
This course provides an overview and critical examination of the theories and research in second language acquisition (SLA) and explores relationships between this work and second language teaching and learning. Major theories examined will include those from cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and sociocultural perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): admission to the SOE M.A. Program.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EDTE 541 - Advanced Pedagogical Grammar
Unit(s): 3
In this course you will gain an understanding of the grammar of English and how to use this understanding in teaching English as a second or foreign language. We will explore a variety of current perspectives and approaches to describing and teaching grammar.
Prerequisite(s): admission to SOE M.A. Program
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EDTE 542 - Teaching Multilingual Writers
Unit(s): 3
This course investigates the theory and practice of learning to write in a second language from an applied linguistics perspective. Topics will include the theoretical developments in L1 and L2 composition, current research issues, and pedagogical concerns, among others.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the SOE M.A. Program, EDTE 544.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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Electrical Engineering |
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EE 110 - Introduction to Engineering and Laboratory Experience
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory: 3 hours
This course is designed to introduce principles of engineering to the students and expose them to the electronics and computer lab environment. The students are given opportunity to design and build some simple analog and digital circuits and make measurements using various types of lab equipment.
Prerequisite(s): Must be eligible to enroll in MATH 45 or MATH 161. Instructor’s consent
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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EE 112 - Fundamentals of Digital Logic Design
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory: 3 hours
Review of set theory and binary system, digital logic, Venn diagram, logic gates, minimization techniques, combinatorial logic and design of simple combinatorial logic circuits such as 1-bit adder; concept of coders, decoders, and integrated circuits
Prerequisite(s): EE 110 and Must be eligible to enroll in MATH 45 or MATH 161. Instructor’s consent
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 210 - Digital Circuits and Logic Design
Unit(s): 4
Students learn how to analyze and evaluate scientific, inductive and deductive reasoning, through digital logic and its application to logic gates and digital electronic circuits. Laboratory work includes designing, building and testing of digital circuits and designs. Project assignments require students present their own design and the final product in public, making persuasive presentations with efficient verbal and non-verbal skills, and listening to peer’s critiques for improvement.
Prerequisite(s): EE 112 with a C or better. Co-requisite(s): EE 230, EE 231, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 220 - Electric Circuits
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Review of Kirchhoff’s laws, circuit design, node and mesh analysis, etc.; Thevenin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem, steady state and transient analysis, transfer function. AC power and three-phase circuits, Y-Delta equivalents. Multi-port networks, two-port networks with energy storage, ideal transformers. Amplifiers and frequency response, filters.
Prerequisite(s): EE 110 with a C or better, CS 115 and MATH 211 with a C- or better Co-requisite(s): EE 221 and PHYS 214; or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 221 - Electric Circuits Laboratory
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory: 3 hours
Laboratory work on material treated in EE 220 emphasizing elementary design principles.
Prerequisite(s): EE 110 with a C or better, CS 115 and MATH 211 with a C- or better Co-requisite(s): EE 220 and PHYS 214; or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 230 - Electronics I
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Theory, characteristics, and operation of diodes, bipolar junction transistors, and MOSFET transistors; analog and digital electronic circuits; design and analysis of analog electronic circuits such as filters, operational amplifiers, and single and multistage amplifiers; modeling and simulation using spice/multisim software.
Prerequisite(s): EE 220 and EE 221 with a C or better, MATH 211 and PHYS 214 Co-requisite(s): EE 231
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 231 - Electronics I Laboratory
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory: 3 hours
Laboratory work to accompany EE 230. Computer-assisted design of electronic circuits involving devices such as diodes and transistors. Design, building, and testing of electronic circuits such as filters, oscillator, amplifiers, etc.
Prerequisite(s): EE 220 and EE 221 with a C or better, MATH 211 and PHYS 214 Co-requisite(s): EE 230
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 282 - Fundamentals of Engineering Modeling and Simulation Laboratory
Unit(s): 1
Fundamentals of Engineering Modeling and Simulation Laboratory (1 Unit). Laboratory: 3 hours. This laboratory course is designed to introduce engineering students to high-level programming and simulation environments in which they can model, measure, analyze, and visualize data.
Prerequisite(s): CS 115
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 310 - Microprocessors and System Design
Unit(s): 3
Hardware architecture of a general-purpose microprocessor and a micro-controller , memory hierarchy and supporting peripherals in micro controllers, comparison of various micro-controller architectures and capabilities, embedded system design using a micro-controller data transfer protocols supported by a micro-controller , process of code writing, compiling, and executing programs using an IDE and a simulator.
Prerequisite(s): ES 210, and EE 112 with a C or better. Co-requisite(s): EE 310L or consent of instructor
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 310L - Microprocessors & System Design Lab
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory work includes building and programming a microcontroller-based system and interfacing it to various external peripherals
Prerequisite(s): ES 210 and EE 112 with a C or better. Co-requisite(s): EE 310 or consent of instructor
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 314 - Advanced Programming, Modeling, and Simulation
Unit(s): 4
Lecture: 4 hours
Pointers and dynamic allocation of storage, linked lists, an introduction to the object oriented programming (OOP) paradigm, classes and objects, encapsulation, member variables and member functions. Static arrays, dynamic arrays, stacks and queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, balanced trees (AVL, red-black, B-trees), heaps, hashing, and graphs. System modeling techniques and applications such as generation of noise (random numbers) and correlated signal with different pdfs, measurement of statistical parameters like moments, queuing systems, and system simulation.
Prerequisite(s): CS 115 with a C- or better and EE 220 with a C or better, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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EE 330 - Electronics II
Unit(s): 2
Lecture: 1 hour, Laboratory: 3 hours
Output stage design of the amplifiers, non-linear op-amp circuits, differential amplifiers, common mode and differential mode circuit analysis, half-circuit analysis, study of current mirrors and active load design, analysis of two stage active load CMOS op-amp, high frequency models of BJT and MOSFET, analysis of low and high frequency responses of amplifiers, open circuit time constant (OTC) and short circuit time constant (STC), study of tuned amplifier.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230 with a C or better and MATH 241 with a C- or better or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 333 - Control Systems
Unit(s): 3
An introduction to the field of control system engineering. Topics include open and closed-loop systems; mathematical modeling of electrical and mechanical systems; linearization; stability; block diagram reduction; signal flow graphs; transient analysis; stability analysis; root locus analysis; frequency analysis; and an introduction to compensator design.
Prerequisite(s): EE 220, EE 221, EE 282
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 334 - Microelectronic Circuits
Unit(s): 3
Integrated Circuit (IC) design philosophy, biasing IC amplifiers, current mirrors, current sources, gain cells, and cascode amplifiers. Differential and multistage IC amplifiers. Amplifier frequency response and frequency response analysis. Feedback and stability. Power amplifier classes, bipolar and CMOS realizations of IC power amplifiers. CMOS and bipolar operational amplifier design.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230, EE 231, MATH 241 or consent of instructor. Co-requisite(s): EE 334L
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 334L - Microelectronic Circuits Laboratory
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory work to accompany EE 334. Computer aided design of integrated circuit (IC) amplifiers. Design, building, and testing of current mirrors, current sources, gain cells, and cascode amplifiers. Design, building, and testing of differential and multistage IC amplifiers.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230, EE 231, MATH 241 or consent of instructor. Co-requisite(s): EE 334
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 345 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Unit(s): 3
Probability and its axioms, conditional probability, sequential experiments, independence, counting, discrete, continuous and mixed random variables and distributions, functions of random variables, expectations, multiple random variables and joint distributions, central limit theorem, weak law of large numbers, estimation of random variables, random processes and their characterization.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 261 with a C- or better, or consent of instructor. Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of B1, B2 and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division B
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 381 - Introduction to Instrumentation and Automation Laboratory
Unit(s): 1
Introduction to Instrumentation and Automation Laboratory (1 unit). Laboratory: 3 hours. In this laboratory based course students are introduced to computerized data acquisition systems and interfacing methods to laboratory instruments. Topics include building virtual instruments, understanding data acquisition methods, learning about communication busses, utilizing feedback control systems in automated testing, and performing signal processing and analysis.
Prerequisite(s): EE 330, CS 115 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 400 - Linear Systems Theory
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Analysis of linear time-invariant systems, correlation, convolution, impulse response, complex variables, Fourier series and transform, sampling, filtering, modulation, stability and causality, feedback and control systems, Laplace and Z-transform, and fast Fourier transforms
Prerequisite(s): MATH 241 and MATH 211 with a C- or better, or consent of instructor. Crosslisted: MATH 430 and ECE 400
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 430 - Electromagnetic Theory and Applications
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Electrostatics, magnetostatics, electric currents, electromagnetic induction, electric and magnetic fields in matter, Maxwell’s equations, retarded potentials radiation reaction, light emission, simple scattering and antenna theory, properties of waveguides, relativistic formulation of electrodynamics, Fourier decomposition of fields.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 214, MATH 241 and MATH 261 with a C- or better. Crosslisted: PHYS 430
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 432 - Physical Electronics
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Semiconductor materials, crystal structure and growth; energy bands and charge carriers, conductivity, and mobility; metal-semiconductor and p-n junctions; p-n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors, CCD’s, photonic devices, and integrated circuits. Projects in photolithography; conductivity and contact resistance measurements; I-V and C-V characteristics of diodes and characterization of transistors may be assigned.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to Electrical Engineering and MS-CES majors only, or consent of instructor. Crosslisted: PHYS 475 and ECE 432
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 440 - Analog and Digital Communications I
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 2 hours Laboratory: 3 hours
Mathematical modeling of signals, time and frequency domain concepts, spectral density, components of a communications system, and analog signal transmission. AM, FM, and PM modulation and demodulation techniques; noise and bandwidth; link analysis. Laboratory work.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230 with a C or better and restricted to Electrical Engineering and MS-CES majors only.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 441 - Analog and Digital Communications II
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 2 hours Laboratory: 3 hours
Digital signals and their transmission, PCM, log-PCM, ADPCM and DM, and other low bit rate coders. Digital data transmission, data encoding, clock recovery and BER, data modulation techniques, ASK, FSK, PSK, and QAM. Link budgets for satellite, cellular, and cable systems; the effects of noise and bandwidth. Laboratory work.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230 and EE 440 with a C or better.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 442 - Analog and Digital Communications
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours Laboratory: 3 hours
Mathematical modeling of signals, time and frequency domain concepts, spectral density, components of a communications system, and analog signal transmission. Analog modulation and demodulation techniques, FDM, noise and bandwidth; Digital signals and their transmission, PCM and low bit rate coders, TDM, data encoding for efficient baseband digital transmission, digital data modulation and demodulation, bit errors.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230 and EE 400 with a C or better. Co-requisite(s): EE 442L.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 442L - Analog and Digital Communications Lab
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory work covers various analog and digital communication elements, and modulation, and demodulation techniques.
Prerequisite(s): EE 230 and EE 400 with a C or better; or consent of instructor. Co-requisite(s): EE 442 or consent of instructor
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 443 - Introduction Optical Fiber Communications
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Principles of light wave propagation, and propagation in an optical fiber, fiber characteristics, O/E and E/O conversions, coupling, WDM, modulation techniques for efficient information transmission, and system design.
Prerequisite(s): EE 430 with a C or better, or consent of instructor. Co-requisite(s): EE 442 or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 444 - Introduction to RF Communications
Unit(s): 3
Principles of transmission line theory, scattering matrix methods, impedance matching, waveguides, microstrip, coplanar lines, couplers, detectors, antennas, RF filters, RF amplifiers, passive RF/ microwave devices (mixers, diplexers, etc.), RF/microwave communications link design, system noise and distortion, common wireless protocols.
Prerequisite(s): (EE 442 and EE 442L with a C or better) or EE 430 with a C or better, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 444L - RF Circuit Design Laboratory
Unit(s): 1
RF Circuit Design Laboratory (1 Unit). Laboratory: 3 hours. This laboratory course is designed to introduce engineering students to basics of RF circuit design and Wireless Communications. Topics include utilization of Spectrum and Vector Network Analyzers, characterization of RF circuit components such as power amplifier, filters, mixers, frequency synthesizers, and antennas, as well as performance measurement of end-to-end RF transceivers.
Prerequisite(s): EE 442 and EE 442L or EE 430 or consent of instructor. Co-requisite(s): EE 444
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 445 - Photonics
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Gaussian beams; guided-wave optics; fiber optics; optical resonators; resonant cavities; laser oscillation and amplification; laser excitation; optical pumping; solid state, gas, dye, chemical, excimer, and free electron lasers; semiconductor lasers; laser spectroscopy; fiber optic communication; photomultiplier and semiconductor radiation detectors including photoconductors and junction photodiodes; p-i-n diodes and avalanche photodiodes; detector noise.
Prerequisite(s): EE 430 or EE 330 with a C or better. Crosslisted: PHYS 445 and ECE 430
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 465 - Introduction to Networking and Network Management
Unit(s): 2
This course offers a working knowledge of IP addressing, TCP and UDP, the ISO reference model, MAC and Ethernet , LAN, MAN, WAN, routing protocols, application protocols , including, client-server model, web protocols ,file transfer protocol, and email, and network elements such as repeaters, bridges, routers, and switches .
Prerequisite(s): EE 442 & EE 442L with a C or better, or consent of instructor Crosslisted: ECE 440
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 465L - Intro. to Networking and Network Management Lab
Unit(s): 1
This laboratory emphasizes on network concepts and protocols through configuring a network using networking elements and PCs, observing the actual behavior of the overall network, and analyzing and evaluating the results
Prerequisite(s): EE 442 and EE 442L with a C or better; Co-requisite(s): EE 465 Crosslisted: ECE 440
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 470 - Introduction to Internet-of-Things
Unit(s): 3
Lecture, 3 hours. This course introduces the design principles, components, infrastructure-related architectures, and networking protocols used to develop the Internet-of-Things (IoT). The course also introduces a wide range of IoT applications and provides hands-on experiences via a series of projects.
Prerequisite(s): EE 310, EE 330, EE 465 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 473 - Introduction to Robotics and Computer Vision
Unit(s): 3
Principles of robotics and computer vision, rigid motions and homogeneous transformations, forward and inverse kinematics, velocity kinematics, path and trajectory planning, sensors and actuators, closed-loop control, computer vision, and vision-based control.
Prerequisite(s): EE 314 or CS 215, MATH 241, EE 310 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 480 - Artificial Intelligence
Unit(s): 3
A survey of techniques that simulate human intelligence. Topics may include: pattern recognition, general problem solving, adversarial game-tree search, decision-making, expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms.
Prerequisite(s): EE 314 with a C or better, and restricted to EE and MS-CES majors only.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 485 - Selected Topics in Engineering Science
Unit(s): 1-3
A course on a single topic or set of related topics not ordinarily covered in the Engineering Science curriculum.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated The course may be repeated for credit as topics vary.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 486 - Selected Laboratory Topics in Electrical Engineering
Unit(s): 1
Laboratory: 3 hours
A laboratory-based course on a single or set of related topics not ordinarily covered in the engineering science curriculum. Topics include Lab- VIEW, FPGA, and RF Instruments.
Prerequisite(s): Class open to Juniors and Seniors only
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated The course may be repeated for credit as topics vary.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 492 - Senior Design Project Planning
Unit(s): 1
Senior Design Project Planning calls on the professional skills of the discipline; it draws on the core disciplines of the students` major field of study, as well as exploring necessary topics such as scheduling, organization, budgeting,, prototyping, develop teamwork, customer liaison skills, employ creativity in proposing new solutions, and so forth. Hence, by the end of the capstone process students are expected to have a good understanding about various design phases, including analysis phase, a design phase, a validation phase and a production phase.
Prerequisite(s): EE 310 and EE 330 with a C or better, and Senior standing, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 493 - Senior Design Project
Unit(s): 3
This is a capstone course. A major project designed to bring the knowledge gained from various courses together to analyze, design, and implement an electronic and/or communications system in an efficient and economic manner.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of lower division C coursework and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division C
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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EE 497 - Engineering Science Colloquium
Unit(s): 1
Lecture: 1 hour
Series of lectures on topics of interest in the relevant fields of engineering. A maximum of 1 unit can be applied to the ES major. The students may not miss more than two presentations. A brief summary of each presentation must be submitted after the presentation. The course grade is decided on evaluation of these reports.
Prerequisite(s): Class open to Seniors only
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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EE 498 - Engineering Practicum
Unit(s): 1-4
Under the faculty instructor’s supervision, engineering juniors and seniors take this service learning training to further their practical engineering experience. A specific assignment is given by the instructor to each student for assisting the class to learn either in class or labs. Regular meetings with the instructor necessary keep track of progress of the assignment and evaluate the student’s learning.
Prerequisite(s): Class open to Juniors or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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ECE 430 - Photonics
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Lasers, diode lasers and LED’s, fiber optics, and optical radiation detectors.
Prerequisite(s): a course in modern Physics (such as PHYS 314) and electromagnetism (such as PHYS 430). Crosslisted: PHYS 445 and ES 445
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 432 - Physics of Semiconductor Devices
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Semiconductor materials, crystal structure and growth, energy bands and charge carriers, conductivity and mobility, metal semiconductor and p-n junctions, p-n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors, CCD’s, and photonic devices and integrated circuits. Projects in photolithography, conductivity and contact resistance measurements, I-V and C-V characteristics of diodes, characterization of transistors may be assigned.
Prerequisite(s): ES 230 or PHYS 314 or consent of instructor. Crosslisted: PHYS 475 and ES 432
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 440 - Introduction to Networking and Network Management
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 2 hours Laboratory: 3 hours
The ISO reference model, theoretical basis for data communications, data transmission theory and practice, telephone systems, protocols, networks, internetworks, with examples.
Prerequisite(s): ES 440 or consent of instructor. Crosslisted: ES 465
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 490 - Selected Topics in CES
Unit(s): 1-3
Special topics to introduce new emerging fields, provide foundation for advanced graduate level courses, or augment other courses in computer and engineering science.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 494 - Directed Readings
Unit(s): 1-3
Independent study under a faculty member. The proposal must be approved by the graduate advisor if the course is to apply towards degree requirements.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 500 - Queuing and Transform Theory
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Review of probability theory, fundamentals of transform theory, Fourier and Z-transforms. Markovian and discrete time queuing systems, single and multi server queuing networks, and their applications. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): ES 314 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 506 - Operations Management
Unit(s): 3
Production/operations management of manufacturing and service operations. Topics include forecasting and scheduling, material requirements planning, and quality assurance. Additional tools include inventory control, project management, and product development. Modern techniques such as Supply Chain Management, e-business, Just-in-Time, and Total Quality Management are illuminated.
Crosslisted: BUS 516
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 510 - Intelligent Systems Design
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Introduction to adaptive systems: neural networks, genetic algorithms (GAs), fuzzy logic, simulated annealing, tabu search, etc. Specific topics include perceptions, backpropagation, Hopfield nets, neural network theory, simple GAs, parallel GAs, cellular GAs, schema theory, mathematical models of simple GAs, and using GAs to evolve neural networks.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 400 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 512 - Theory of Software Systems
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Review of data structures and basic algorithms for sorting, searching, and string processing. Basics of logic, formal systems, grammars, and automata. Applications to some of the following areas: design of language processing tools (editor, translator etc.), software specification, testing and verification, and non-numerical problem solving. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 514 - Data Mining
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Introduction to data models, data warehousing, association-rule mining, searching the Web, and Web Mining: Clustering. AI techniques (neural networks, decision trees), applications, and case studies. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 516 - High-Performance Computing
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Algorithmic tools and techniques for problems hard to solve on a standard uniprocessor model such as problems involving large data sets or real-time constraints; development of computational models to analyze the requirements and solutions and special hardware based solutions; case studies to illustrate the developed models, tools, and techniques. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 520 - Embedded Systems See Addendum for changes
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Three major topics covered in this course are: controlling specialized I/O devices with particular attention to bit patterns and priority interrupts; waveshapes and measurement tools, both hardware and software; and real time operating systems.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 522 - VLSI Design
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
IC technology review, hardware description languages and describing hardware using one of the languages, modern VLSI design flow, circuit partitioning, clustering. Floor planning, placement, global routing, area efficient design, area-time trade-offs. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 530 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 524 - Advanced Computer Architecture
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Concept of advanced computing architectures, pipelining, multiprocessing, and multiprogramming. Single- and multi-stage interconnection networks, applications/algorithms for parallel computers, local and system business architectures, CPU and computer system performance analysis. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 530 - Analog and Digital Microelectronics
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Introduction to analog/digital integrated circuits, bipolar and MOS transistor models, analysis and design of monolithic operational amplifiers, frequency response, non-linear circuits and CMOS, and Bipolar Logic Circuits. The course requires lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 432 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 532 - Advanced Photonics Devices
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Optical resonators, interaction of photons with materials, LEDs, laser diodes, optical amplifiers, optical noise, photoconductors, electrooptic modulators, photonic switches, nonlinear optical materials and devices. The course requires lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 430 or equivalent.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 540 - Digital Data Transmission
Unit(s): 3
Characteristics of base-band and bandpass channels, optimum signaling sets, and receivers for digital communications; effect of noise and intersymbol interference on probability of error; channel capacity; introduction to phase-locked loop analysis for timing and carrier synchronization.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 400 and ECE 430 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 542 - Digital Signal Processing
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Time/frequency analysis of discrete-time signals and systems. Fast implementations of the DFT and its relatives. IIR and FIR digital filter design, implementation, and quantization error analysis. Decimation, interpolation, and multirate processing.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 400 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 543 - Optical Fiber Communications
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Lightwave fundamentals, optical fiber as transmission media, losses and bandwidth, fiber cables. Optical sources, detectors. Optical components such as switches, access couplers, wavelength multiplexers and demultiplexers. Analog and digital transmission techniques, line coding techniques, optic heterodyne receivers, thermal and shot noise, bit error rates, optical transmission system design. Optical T-carrier systems and SONET, future directions. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 230, PHYS 231 and ECE 440 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 544 - Wireless Communication
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Introduction to mobile/wireless communication systems, cellular communication, data transmission and signaling, noise and intelligence, analog and digital techniques, multiple-access architecture. The course requires lab and/ or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 440 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 547 - Digital Switching:Techniques and Architectures
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Review of switching techniques, synchronous and asynchronous transfer modes (i.e., STM and ATM), and various switch architectures. Multirate and multipoint-to-multipoint switching, ATM switching, signaling and call set-up, ATM switch-architectures and their performance evaluation, and multicasting techniques. VLSI implementation considerations, future directions. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 345, ES 230, ES 231, and ECE 440, or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 552 - Network Architecture and Protocols
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
ISO model, review of the physical and data link layers, network layer and routing including for internet, multicast routing, TCP and UDP protocols and their characteristics, performance and limitations, TCP/IP stack, applications such a FTP, e-mail and DNS, voice over IP. The course may require significant lab and/or project activity.
Prerequisite(s): ECE 440 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 561 - Computational Techniques for Biomolecules
Unit(s): 3
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Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 562 - Biomedical Instrumentation
Unit(s): 3
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Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 563 - Biophotonics
Unit(s): 3
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Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 564 - Medical Image Processing
Unit(s): 3
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Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 590 - Selected Topics in Communications and Photonics
Unit(s): 3
Special topics to augment regularly scheduled graduate courses in communications and photonics will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites depend on subject material.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 591 - Internship
Unit(s): 1
Internship will be done at an industry, R&D laboratory, government organization, or a laboratory or center at an academic institution to gain professional training, teamwork experience, communication skills, and project opportunities that will prepare students for a successful career in the real world.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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ECE 592 - Selected Topics in Hardware and Software Systems
Unit(s): 3
Special topics to augment regularly scheduled graduate courses in hardware and software systems will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites depend on subject material.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 592B - Selected Topics in Bioengineering
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Special topics to augment regularly scheduled graduate courses in bioengineering will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 593 - Laboratory and Technology Report Experience
Unit(s): 3
Lecture: 1 hour Laboratory: 6 hours
In this course, students will learn to operate state-of-the art equipment in at least 6 laboratories, perform experiments, and write lab reports. In addition, students will write a technical report on a state-of-the art topic within the scope of the master’s program of at least 3000 words excluding figures and tables. (The course cannot be taken to meet 30-unit requirement under thesis or project option unless approved by the Program Director.
Prerequisite(s): permission of student’s advisor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 594 - Directed Readings
Unit(s): 1-3
Independent study under a faculty member. The proposal must be approved by the graduate advisor if it is to apply towards degree requirements.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ECE 595 - Design Project
Unit(s): 1-3
The project plan, timetable, necessary resources, and the expected outcome must be approved by a faculty project advisor and the program advisor at least one semester before taking the course.
Prerequisite(s): admission of candidacy for the Master’s degree and approval of the faculty advisor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 596 - Project Continuation
Unit(s): 1-3
Designed for students working on their thesis or design project but who have otherwise completed all graduate coursework toward their degree. This course cannot be applied toward the minimum number of units needed for completion of the master’s degree.
Prerequisite(s): consent of faculty thesis/project advisor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 597 - Graduate Seminar
Unit(s): 1
Series of lectures presented by experts from academia and industries.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 598 - Comprehensive Examination
Unit(s): 1
In this four-hour examination, the student’s overall understanding of important concepts of the core courses and the main subjects of each track will be tested.
Prerequisite(s): advancement to candidacy for the master’s degree and approval of the graduate advisor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ECE 599 - Research and Thesis See Addendum for changes
Unit(s): 1-6
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Prerequisite(s): admission of candidacy for the master’s degree and approval of the thesis advisor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 099T - Basic Composition-Tutoring
Unit(s): 1
Individual tutoring to support writing in undergraduate courses, primarily First-Year English composition. Ideal for multilingual learners and those seeking extra writing support. May be repeated. Not applicable toward graduation.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated Yes
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: PNP
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ENGL 100A - First-Year Composition
Unit(s): 3
Study and practice in the expression of facts and ideas and principles of investigation, of organization, and of effective writing style, with emphasis upon expository writing and upon developing analytical reading ability. Students must successfully complete both English 100A and ENGL 100B; ENGL 100B may not be taken alone. Three units each semester. English 100A is a prerequisite for ENGL 100B.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ENGL 100B - First-Year Composition
Unit(s): 3
Study and practice in the expression of facts and ideas and principles of investigation, of organization, and of effective writing style, with emphasis upon expository writing and upon developing analytical reading ability. Students must successfully complete both English 100A and English 100B to satisfy GE Area A2 Written Communication; English 100B may not be taken alone. Three units each semester.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100A
GE Category: A2 - Written Communication.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ENGL 101 - Expository Writing and Analytical Reading
Unit(s): 3
Study and practice in the expression of facts and ideas and principles of investigation, of organization, and of effective writing style, with emphasis upon expository writing and upon developing analytical reading ability. Practice in the oral analysis and expression of ideas. Individual sections may be designated as Freshman Interest Group (FIG) courses and course material linked with companion FIG courses in other departments.
GE Category: A2 - Written Communication.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ENGL 160A - Humanities Learning Community
Unit(s): 4
ENGL 160A/ENGL 160B is a year long course, which features weekly lectures and small seminars. It constitutes a Humanities Learning Community (HLC) for any first-year student.
Prerequisite(s): Reserved for first-time first-year students.
GE Category: C2 - Humanities
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ENGL 160B - Humanities Learning Community
Unit(s): 4
ENGL 160A/B is a year long course, which features weekly lectures and small seminars. It constitutes a Humanities Learning Community (HLC) for any first-year student.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 160A
GE Category: A3 - Critical Thinking
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ENGL 199 - Student-Instructed Course
Unit(s): 1-3
A course taught by graduate students under the supervision of a department faculty member. The course content will not be one covered by the regular course offerings.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 200 - Teaching CA Histories of Schooling & Education
Unit(s): 3
Through popular and scholarly readings and media that tell histories of schooling and education in California, students will engage with topics including language and cultural revitalization and sustaining pedagogies, youth protest, abolitionist teaching, and counter storytelling. Student learning outcomes include oral communication, critical reading and listening skills; information literacies; diverse cultural competencies; and creative problem solving. This course considers teaching as oral performance, providing opportunity for final projects that showcase and/or develop classroom or community curriculum featuring testimonios and related genres including oral histories, counternarratives, storytelling, talk story, plática, and rap sessions. To be offered yearly each Fall and Spring semester. This is a zero-cost course.
GE Category: A1 - Oral Communication
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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ENGL 201 - Literary Analysis: Seminar
Unit(s): 4
The art of critical writing on each genre, and the application of traditional and modern criticism to the study of literature.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 203 - Introduction to Linguistic Studies
Unit(s): 4
The nature and structure of natural language; language variation; child first and second language acquisition; the role and function of language in the context of personal and group interactions and identities; language and other communication systems in culture and society; how language changes; introduction to techniques used in the scientific study of language.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area D1 (Individual and Society).
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 207 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to a variety of forms of creative writing, poetry and prose poems, the personal essay, vignettes, short stories, drama, and experimental fiction. Students will explore each form with in-class exercises and discussion.
GE Category: C1 - Arts
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 214 - Literature of the World
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the study of literature. Literature drawn from a worldwide range of cultures and historical periods will provide the basis for oral discussion and written analysis. The course promotes global awareness or cross-cultural perspectives while developing basic analytical skills necessary for appreciating literary texts in diverse contexts and traditions. Emphasis will be placed on written analysis of literary form and meaning.
GE Category: C2 - Humanities
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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ENGL 235 - Early British & American Literature
Unit(s): 4
Study of literary history and significant works in the British and American traditions from the Anglo Saxon through the end of the 18th century.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 236 - Later British & American Lit.
Unit(s): 4
Study of literary history and significant works in the British and American traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 237 - Survey: Early American Literature
Unit(s): 4
Survey of American Literature from the 17th century through the middle decades of the 19th century, concluding with a study of Whitman and Dickinson. In addition to major authors, major themes of the periods will be explored, including a story of Puritanism, transcendentalism, and American romanticism.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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ENGL 238 - Survey: Later American Literature
Unit(s): 4
Begins with Whitman and covers most major writers of the late 19th century and of the 20th century. Dickinson, Twain, H. James, Faulkner, Eliot, Kate Chopin, Baldwin. Realism, naturalism, and modernism.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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