Last updated September 14, 1998
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Economics (ECN) 135
(change in prerequisite and description)
Prerequisite: course 101 or 105. Monetary institutions, the banking system, money creation, the Federal Reserve System, the tools of monetary policy.
(eff. Fall 99)
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Economics (ECN) 136
(new course)
136. Topics in Macroeconomic Theory (4) II. The Staff
Lecture--3 hours; discussion--1 hour. Prerequisite: course 101 or 105. Advanced topics in macroeconomic theory. Possible topics include money demand, financial intermediation, rational expectations, growth theory.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Economics (ECN) 136A
canceled
136A. Monetary Theory
(eff. Winter 99)
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Economics (ECN) 136B
canceled
136B. Monetary Policy
(eff. Winter 99)
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Economics (ECN) 137
(new course)
137. Macroeconomic Policy (4) III. The Staff (Chair in charge)
Lecture--3 hours; discussion--1 hour. Prerequisite: course 101 or 105. The theory and practice of macroeconomic policy, both monetary and fiscal.
(eff. Spring 99)
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Economics (ECN) 225
canceled
225. Urban Economics
(eff. Spring 99)
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Engineering: Applied Science (EAL) 215
(change in units, lecture, and activity)
Units: 4
Lecture--3 hours; laboratory--3 hours. Prerequisite: Computer Science Engineering 175 or 177 or 178.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Applied Science (EAL) 270A-270B
(new course)
270A-270B. Advanced Laser Plasma Physics (3) I-II. Baldis
Lecture--3 hours. Prerequisite: course 205A, 205B, 234. Laser-produced plasmas and advanced applications of high power lasers. Plasma formation with lasers, ponderomotive force, kinetic theory, waves in unmagnetized plasmas, non-linear effects, parametric instabilities, hydrodynamic instabilities, and radiation transport. Applications include ICF, X-ray lasers.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Biological Systems (EBS) 1
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: restricted to students in Biological Systems Engineering or Food Engineering.
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Biological and Agricultural (EBS) 262
(new course)
262. Computer Interfacing and Control (4) II. Delwiche
Lecture--3 hours; laboratory--3 hours. Prerequisite: Engineering 100, course 165. Procedural and object-oriented programming in C++, analog and digital signal conversion, data acquisition and computer control. Offered in alternate years.
(eff. Winter 2000)
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Engineering: Chemical and Materials Science (ECH) 158C
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: course 158H or 161C.
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Computer Science (ECS) 244
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: course 20; course 150 or 151B.
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Computer Science (ECS) 256A
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: course 20; courses 154A-154B or Electrical and Computer Engineering 170; and Statistics 131A or the equivalent; course 150 or 151A-151B recommended.
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Computer Science (ECS) 279
(cross-listed with Engineering: Applied Science 215)
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 110A
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: courses 100 and 140A.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 114
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: courses 110B and 140B.
(eff. Fall 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 118
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: courses 110A and 180A.
(eff. Spring 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 130A
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: Mathematics 21D, Physics 9D, Engineering 17.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 136
(new course)
136. Opto-Electronics and Fiber-Optics Laboratory (3) III. Solgaard
Lecture--1 hour; discussion--1 hour; laboratory--3 hours. Prerequisite: course 130B or consent of instructor; course 135 recommended. Characteristics and applications of state-of-the-art optoelectronic components (semiconductor detectors, optical modulators and optical fibers) and fiber-optic communication systems.
(eff. Spring 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 140A
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: Engineering 17, Physics 9D.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 180A
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: course 70 or Computer Science Engineering 50; course 100 (may be taken concurrently).
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 248
(change in prerequisite and description)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Same course as Biomedical Engineering 249.
(eff. Spring 99)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 249
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: course 140B.
(eff. Spring 98)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 255
(change in perquisite)
Prerequisite: course 157A.
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Electrical and Computer (EEC) 257
(change in prerequisite and description)
Prerequisite: Computer Science Engineering 30 or 40 or the equivalent or familiarity with MATLAB as a programming language; Mathematics 22A; Mathematics 131 or course 150A. Advanced topics in the theoretical foundations of optimization and its applications, such as, semi-infinite and nondifferentiable optimization in engineering design, optimal control, global optimization, convex analysis and optimization, linear and integer programming, VLSI physical design automation. May be repeated for credit when topic differs.
(eff. Spring 99)
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Engineering: Materials Science (EMS) 232L
(change in prerequisite)
Prerequisite: course 230L.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Materials Science (EMS) 246
(canceled)
246. Current Topics in Electronic Materials Processing
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Materials Science (EMS) 289A-G
(new course)
289A-G. Special Topics in Materials Science (1-5) I, II, III. The Staff
Lecture and/or laboratory. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Special topics in: (A) Electronic Materials; (B) Ceramics and Minerals; (C) Physics and Chemistry of Materials; (D) Materials Processing; (E) Materials Science and Forensics; (F) Biomaterials; (G) Surface Chemistry of Metal Oxides.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Engineering: Mechanical and Aeronautical (EME) 165
(change in instructors)
Instructor: Baughn
(eff. Fall 98)
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Engineering: Mechanical (EME) 176
(change in units and activity)
Units: 4
Lecture--2 hours; discussion--1.5 hours; laboratory--1.5 hours.
(eff. Winter 99)
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English (ENL) 235
(change in existing course)
235. Theory of Fiction (4) I. Hicks, Vaz, Major, Byrd, Hoffman
Seminar--3 hours; conference--1 hour. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Theories of fiction as they relate to the professional writer's practice of the craft. For students in the creative writing program. May be repeated for credit when focus differs.
(eff. Spring 98)
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English (ENL) 236
(change in existing course)
236. Poetics (4) I. Snyder, Major, Williamson, Gilbert, McPherson
Seminar--3 hours; conference--1 hour. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Theories of poetry as revealed in structure, prosody, and idiom of British and American poems, variably approached--through intensive study of a single poet, historically, or theoretically--at the instructor's discretion. For students in the Creative Writing Program. May be repeated for credit when focus differs.
(eff. Spring 98)
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Entomology 111
(change in existing course)
Will be offered spring quarter 1999; not offered winter 1999.
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Environmental and Resource Sciences 173)
(change in prerequisite and description)
Prerequisite: course 60, Geography 1, Environmental Science and Policy 30, or Biological Sciences 1C. Role of humans in modifying the earth's vegetation. Emphasis on cultural-historical and ecological approaches to the evolution of wild landscapes, factors of plant distribution, mapping of vegetation, world vegetation patterns, human impact on major regions, and case studies of land-use and vegetation change.
(eff, Winter 99)
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Environmental Horticulture (ENH) 220
(canceled)
220. Tree Biotechnology
(eff. Winter 99)
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Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) 155
(change in units, prerequisite, activity)
Units: 4
Lecture--3 hours; discussion--1 hour. Prerequisite: course 100 or Plant Biology 117 required; course 110 or 151 recommended.
(eff. Fall 98)
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Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) 275
(new course)
275. Economic Analysis of Resource and Environmental Policies (4) III. Weinberg
Lecture/discussion--4 hours. Prerequisite: Agricultural and Resource Economics 204/Economics 204. Development of externality theory, market failure concepts, welfare economics, theory of renewable and non-renewable resource use, and political economic models. Applications to policy issues regarding the agricultural/environment interface and managing resources in the public domain. (Same course as Agricultural and Resource Economics 275.)
(eff. Spring 99)
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Epidemiology (EPI) 224
(new course)
224. Health and Ecological Risk Analysis (3) III. Carpenter
Lecture--2 hours; laboratory--3 hours. Prerequisite: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 406 or consent of instructor; background in statistics, including multivariable techniques; a course in differential equations. A methodological approach to risk analysis for human and animal-related health and ecological issues. Basic principles of risk analysis, including perception, communication, assessment and management. Emphasis on the assessment of risk.
(eff. Spring 98)
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Epidemiology (EPI) 291
(new course)
291. Seminars in Human Health Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology (1) I, II, III. Romano and staff
Seminar--1 hour. Critical review, evaluation, and discussion of research in health services and clinical epidemiology. Presentation of statistical, epidemiologic, and econometric methods. Students present their own research and critique the work of others. May be repeated for credit. (Same course as General Medicine 291.) (S/U grading only.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Biological Sciences: Evolution and Ecology (EVE) 103
(change in units and activity)
Units: 4
Lecture--3 hours; discussion--1 hour.
(eff. Winter 99)
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Medicine: Family and Community Medicine (330)
(new course)
330. Pathophysiology for FNP/PA Students (4) I, II, III, IV. Hoody, Morris
Lecture/discussion--4 hours. Prerequisite: open only to FNP/PA students. General concepts of anatomy and physiology are applied to the disease state in the context of the clinical setting. Etiology, pathogenesis, morphology and clinical significance of each disease process are discussed. May be repeated twice for credit. (P/NP grading only; Deferred grading only, pending completion of sequence.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Fiber and Polymer Science (FPS) 192
(new course)
192. Internship in Fiber and Polymer Science (1-12) I, II, III. The Staff (Chairperson in charge)
Internship--3-36 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Work experience off campus in a fiber and polymer science related area. Supervision by a member of the Textiles and Clothing faculty. (P/NP grading only.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Fiber and Polymer Science (FPS) 198
(new course)
198. Directed Group Study (1-5) I, II, III. The Staff (Chairperson in charge)
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Fiber and Polymer Science (FPS) 199
(new course)
199. Special Study for Advanced Undergraduates (1-5) I, II, III. The Staff (Chairperson in charge)
Prerequisite: upper division standing and consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Fiber and Polymer Science (FPS) 250A-F
(new course)
(Formerly Textiles and Clothing course 250A-F.)
(eff. W99)
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Fiber and Polymer Science (FPS) 299
(new course)
299. Research (1-12) I, II, III. The Staff (Chairperson in charge)
Independent study--3-36 hours. (S/U grading only.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Medicine: General Medicine (GMD) 291
(new course)
(Same course as Epidemiology 291.)
(eff. Fall 98)
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Genetics 292C
(change in quarter offered)
Offered spring 99
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Genetics 292D
(change in quarter offered)
Offered spring 99
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Geology (GEL) 32
(change in units, activity and description)
Units: 3
Lecture--3 hours. Role of eruptions, and eruptive products of volcanoes in shaping the planet's surface, influencing its environment, and providing essential human resources. GE: SciEng.
(eff. Fall 99)
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German
The following German courses are approved for GE credit, Topical Breadth: Arts and Humanities-German (GER) 118D, 120, 121, 122A, 122B, 123, 124A-D, 125, 131, 134, 144, 168, 185.
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 115
(new course)
115. German Literature Since 1945 (4) I. Menges, Karl
Lecture--3 hours; extensive writing. Knowledge of German not required. Major writers of the post-war generation of Austria, Switzerland and Germany: novelists, such as Böll, Grass, Johnson, Walser, Handke; playwrights such as Frisch, Dürrentmatt and Hochhuth; and poets, such as Celan, Enzensberger, and Aighinger. May be repeated for credit in different topic area. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 115A
canceled: 115A. German Literature Since 1945
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 115B
canceled: 115B. German Literature Since 1945
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 150
canceled: 150. Contemporary German Literature
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 270A
canceled: 270A. Research in a Period or Topic
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 270B
canceled: 270B. Basic Research for the Dissertation
(eff. Fall 98)
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German (GER) 270C
canceled: 270C. Basic Research for the Dissertation
(eff. Fall 98)