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Probability

EC ENGR 131A Probability. (Instructor: Prof. L. Dolecek) introduction to basic concepts of probability, including random variables and vectors, distributions and densities, moments, characteristic functions, and limit theorems. Applications to communication, control, and signal processing. Introduction to computer simulation and generation of random events. Letter grading.

Writing for Public Speaking

Course for PEP students only. Outside enrollment not allowed.

Digging Up the Past: Finding out about past ecosystems

We've all seen the skeletons of dinosaurs and other fossil organisms in museums, although most people don't go beyond gaping at their size. Paleontologists can actually use information from those bones, and other lines of evidence, to find out about how these animals lived - how they moved, what they ate, even how they breathed. They can also make inferences about the environments of these animals - what was the vegetation, how much water was there, what was the temperature. And while this information is interesting in its own right by telling us something about our Earth's past, it can also be used to tell us something about how our world will change in the future in light of current climate change. Find out how we get this information, what we do with it, and the work of paleontologists in this xOPEN course.

The Play's the Thing

Great theater has the power to both entertain and inspire. At its best, a play can inform and even transform lives. This course features spectacle theater from Greek origins to today's socially relevant musicals, the work of our best playwrights, plays about famous people, and a focus on the actors' craft. Short scenes from staged plays on video, as well as actors performing live scenes and monologues via Zoom will be presented and discussed. We explore what engages us, makes us laugh, what touches our hearts, and what helps us live richer lives in tough times.

Food Studies Graduate Certificate Colloquium

Food is complex subject given that production, procurement, preparation, consumption, and exchange of edible matter is biologically vital to human growth, development, and function and critical to many aspects of society and culture. Food studies is growing cross-disciplinary field of research, teaching, and advocacy that encompasses and draws from cultural anthropology and geography, food law and policy, urban planning, sociology, literature, history, public health, nutrition, environmental science, molecular and cell biology, science and technology studies (STS), agronomy, and other disciplines. Survey of some of these wide-ranging topics and disciplines that define food studies.

Critical Reading and Writing

This introduction to literary analysis includes close reading and carefully written exposition of selections from one or more of the principal modes of literature: poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. This course looks at twentieth-century American short stories set in diverse regional, ethnic, gendered, and imagined communities. These are stories that speak to America's reality, sometimes puzzling, often frightening, more often than not just plain hilarious. This course also looks at short philosophical essays published in the eighteenth-century by perhaps the greatest English essayist, Samuel Johnson: his brief and pointed comments on social life and human experience provide just the opportunity to read broad and true observations of human nature expressed in prose of a very high stylistic and conceptual order. Transferable for UC credit.

Introduction to Earth Science

Elements of Earth science; study of Earth materials; nature and interpretation of geologic evidence; study of geologic processes; historical aspects of geology. Transferrable for UC Credit.

Brain Made Simple: Neuroscience for the 21st Century

General overview and introduction to the most exciting and fundamental topics encompassing the field of neuroscience. This course examines the basic physiology of the brain and nervous system and the revolutionary developments now affecting our understanding of the brain. Transferable for UC credit.

Cosmetic Sciences: Skin Care Ingredients, Skin Conditions and Regulatory Issues for Cosmetic Professionals

Part II of this 3-part series offers cosmetic industry professionals in all sectors - regardless of experience and scientific background - an overview of popular and upcoming skincare ingredient technologies designed to prevent or reverse skin aging. Beginning with an introduction to the skin’s numerous cell types and basic anatomy and physiology, this course then examines the effects of internal and external factors on the skin’s aging processes at cellular and tissue levels. New research now influencing today’s skin care development trends will be highlighted. Peptides, advanced plant and stem cell extracts, antioxidants, growth factors, sunscreens, and other age-fighting ingredients currently found in cosmetics, as well as technologies now emerging from research labs around the world, will be discussed within the framework of their effects on aging skin. Legal cosmetic claims and claims substantiation methodologies will be discussed in light of upcoming regulations that will go into effect in the next few years.

Air Force Leadership Studies

utilizes student’s field training experience to take a more in-depth look at leadership. Special emphasis is placed on enhancing communication skills, and why that is important as a leader. Students have an opportunity to try out these leadership and management techniques in a supervised environment as juniors and seniors.

Physical and Chemical Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment

CEE 255A. Physical and Chemical Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment. (Instructor: Jassby, D.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisites: courses 155, 254A. Review of momentum and mass transfer, chemical reaction engineering, coagulation and flocculation, granular filtrations, sedimentation, carbon adsorption, gas transfer, disinfection, oxidation, and membrane processes. Letter grading.

Advanced Portfolio Design and Graphic Storytelling

This course guides you through our written and graphic self representation. By the end of this course, you have a personal portfolio design, résumé, and sample works. The main focus of the class is to learn techniques on presentations for studio projects, interviews, and client meetings. We investigate these together through a combination of lectures, mock presentations, and workshops. This class is interactive and changes week to week.

Art and Science of Brewing

Beer is one of the world’s most enjoyed beverages. The process of turning barley, hops, yeast and water into over a hundred distinct styles of beer is increasingly of interest in the world of homebrewing, craft beer, and the continual development of a process and product that has been around for hundreds of years. This course will give students an understanding of the process of brewing beer from raw materials into the package and out to the customer. It will also cover insights into the brewing industry including tasting, pairing, and serving. As a part of the course the students will also be able to visit two local breweries of different sizes and apply their process understanding to the commercial level.

Professional Practices in Landscape Architecture

This course covers professional relationships and the rights and responsibilities between parties in the public and private sectors. Instruction emphasizes professional practices and project management, including licensing and consumer protection, setting up and managing a private practice, cost estimating and bid solicitation, contracts and contract documents, liability and insurance, administering projects under construction, and professional ethics.

Plant Studies I: Trees

One of two required plant studies courses, focusing on trees, their communities, and their place in the landscape. Instruction focuses on trees that often influence the landscape architect’s overall site composition. This course focuses specifically on the large-scale material trees, learning tree taxonomy, tree selection, leaf morphology, nursery standards of growing trees, water requirements, installation practices, native trees, and climate adapted trees. Students will learn how to: identify trees, select quality nursery trees, enhance their understanding of site and environmental conditions, promote species diversity, while also fulfilling site design aesthetics and functionality objectives. Emphasis is on Southern California climate-appropriate tree species that meet California state and/or local water regulations, while taking into consideration soil conditions, supplemental irrigation, and life-cycle maintenance and ultimate tree size.
In addition to evening Zoom classes, students will attend two mandatory, in-person, weekend field trips to selected sites in the Los Angeles area. Students will also create their own tree booklet of self-selected species, providing their understanding of the characteristics of these species and their identifying features.

History of the Designed Landscape

The Landscape Architecture Program's history course comprises the study of the evolution of landscape design through Western civilization. Lectures cover the outstanding examples of landscape garden design and their relationships to art and architecture, as well as the philosophical, social, political, and historical forces that influenced the designed environment. Instruction includes extensive visual materials.

Design Graphics 1: Drafting and Drawing of the Built Environment

Students learn introductory drafting, lettering and perspective drawing techniques as they relate to the field of Landscape Architecture and professional standards. All work product is developed from Tongva Park, a real site located in Santa Monica. At the end of this course, students make a presentation to the instructor and visiting guests. The students present a package of work product that includes hand drafting of a dimensioned site plan, section/elevations and perspective sketch.

Landscape Design 6: Concept Development

This course explores the use of drawings as tools for visualization and design development. The focus is on developing an ability to use drawings to model and manipulate visual information throughout the various stages of design evolution. Techniques for examining ideas and concept alternatives through composite, perspective, orthographic and axonometric drawings are explored. Lectures present examples of built projects and methods of recognized professionals, which illustrate the dramatic influence drawing type may have on the final form or organization of a design. The course requires intensive drawing time; students must have already mastered basic drafting and sketching skills.

Capstone Project Studio

The Capstone Project Studio is an intensive course in which students develop a comprehensive and creative final design project that reflects their special interests and demonstrates the theory, skills and knowledge acquired over the two-and-a-half prior years of study in the Landscape Architecture Program. Students select individual projects and complete the Capstone Studio Project in 12 weeks. Small studio groups meet twice weekly under instructor guidance to review their work in progress. Class sessions include discussion of design theory and process, programming, design concepts and graphic communication. The student prepares for weekly critiques and meets milestones. Completed projects are presented before instructors, guidance committee members and local professionals at approximately week 11.

Landscape Construction Drawing I

This construction drawing course imparts a working knowledge of procedures and techniques. Students learn the process of assembling a complete and comprehensive set of construction drawings in which title and base sheets, dimensioned layout sheets, and demolition plans are prepared. Grading, drainage, and other drawings prepared in other courses are incorporated into the overall document package.

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