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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.

Single Subject Methods for Teaching Science

This course focuses on methodologies appropriate for facilitating science instruction at the middle and high school levels in a variety of classroom settings. As candidates for the added authorization Single Subject Credential in Science, students in this course learn, practice, and reflect on the specific pedagogical knowledge needed to teach science to secondary students. Teacher candidates learn specific teaching strategies that are effective in supporting them to teach the state-adopted academic content standards for students in science (7-12). They learn strategies to balance the focus of instruction between science information, concepts, and principles. Additionally, teacher candidates learn how to be reflective practitioners who regularly engage in classroom action research to improve their teaching. Specific topics include the use of scientific investigation, inquiry, and experimentation; cultural sensitivity in science instruction; measuring and recording scientific data; integration of mathematics in science instruction; laboratory safety; and integration of curriculum with real-world applications and connections to careers in science.

History of Environmental Arts: Part II

Part two of a four-part survey course on the environmental arts of the Western world. This course traces the architecture, landscape architecture, furniture, art, and decorative arts from the Italian Renaissance to the beginning of the nineteenth century in France, England, and America. Periods covered include the Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic. Instruction focuses on the man-built environment influenced by geographical location and the social, religious, economic, and political forces of history. Major monuments are discussed in terms of function, symbolism, methods of fabrication, style, use of color, ornament, and significance. Illustrated lectures, readings, and student projects develop an appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of the Western world. Students learn how to utilize library and museum resources and recognize and evaluate significant environmental design movements. Intended to establish an understanding of the achievements of the past in order to more fully understand the present.

Data Management Systems

CS 143 Data Management Systems (Instructor: Prof. R. Rosario) Data Management Systems. (4) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisite: course 32 or Program in Computing 10C. Information systems and database systems in enterprises. File organization and secondary storage structures. Relational model and relational database systems. Network, hierarchical, and other models. Query languages. Database design principles. Transactions, concurrency, and recovery. Integrity and authorization. Letter grading.

Data Governance

Data Governance is an integrated framework of policies, people, processes and technology that are applied to ensure effective data management. It is a core discipline and includes foundational principles that are prerequisites to the study and application of other data management disciplines such as data quality, metadata management, master data management, business intelligence and data warehouse and advanced analytics. This course in Data Governance will enable students to gain an understanding of the various components that allow an enterprise to manage data as a valuable enterprise asset. These components include strategic business drivers, regulatory and legislative mandates and data-centric policies; enterprise business processes; organizational roles and various technologies that are needed to support and propagate an enterprise data governance practice.

Self-Care for Addiction Professionals: Optimizing Health and Wellbeing

This course provides students with a basic level of understanding of the epidemiology and development of burnout, including learning current science to establish a foundational understanding of physical, psychological, and spiritual self-care to optimize adoption of a plan for well-being while conducting work in the field of substance use disorders. Substance use disorder professionals experience high rates of burnout similar to other providers of mental health care. High rates of burnout can result in increased job dissatisfaction, increased absences from work, leaving jobs early, impacted job performance and functioning in other areas of life, and relapse. Research indicates a substantial need to establish a mechanism of self-care and collaborative partnership among addiction professionals to reduce the impact of burnout. Specific topics include: the biological, developmental, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to burnout; recognition of stressful dynamics and increasing self-awareness; neurobiological benefits to self-care; mindfulness practice and meditation; developing good sleep hygiene and the importance of sleep; adequate nutrition and exercise; and maintaining motivation to engage in self-care behaviors. Includes guest speakers and weekly mindfulness practice.

National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty

is designed for college seniors and provides them the foundation to understand their role as military officers and how they are directly tied to our National Security. It is an overview of the complex social and political issues facing the military profession and requires a measure of sophistication commensurate with the senior college level.

National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty

Leading People and Effective Communication

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.

Residential Remodeling

This introductory course explores current information on the challenges and pitfalls of residential remodeling. Remodeling is presented as a series of steps covering potential resale value; remodeling cost and financing; architectural planning and design; household safety considerations; geologic, site, and structural engineering; resistance to earthquake damage; home mechanical systems (electrical, plumbing, heating, and cooling); building department procedures and limitations; and residential construction. Illustrated lectures and a field trip are conducted by design professionals and craftspeople who specialize in remodeling. Participants also review the redistribution of existing space and the quest for new space to satisfy ever-changing modern lifestyle needs. Kitchens, family rooms, baths, and master suites receive special attention.

LARE 4: Grading, Drainage and Stormwater Management

UCLA Extension LARE 4 is a live online workshop and review course offered over two days. LARE 4’s areas of examination include grading and drainage basics refresher and overview of ADA standards. Stormwater management from watershed to BMPs and sustainable water quality will be reviewed. Grading and earthwork design considerations for large scale sites and detailed site-specific circulation, including addressing design alternatives. Drainage design, components, and adherence to national codes will be covered.

Students will be provided Sample Problem Examples, Questions and Supplemental Study material which will be reviewed in this course.

LARE 3: Construction Documentation and Administration

UCLA Extension LARE 3 is a live online workshop. This class encompasses the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for the preparation of Construction Plans and Details, corresponding Construction Specifications through the Bidding process and execution of Construction Administration services. Construction Plans and Details will address topics ranging from existing conditions, protection and mitigation, layout, and supporting supplemental plans. A part of the complete Construction Document set, Specifications and Bidding requirements such as, Project Manual and bid requirements will be discussed. Construction Administration will cover construction Project Management responsibilities, Pre-construction activities, the construction contract, reviewing submittals, conducting site observations and reports, and project close out. Sample Problem Examples, Questions, Practice Tests, Common Construction Details and Specifications, Bidding Documents and Project Management documents will be reviewed in this course. Supplemental study material will also be provided.

LARE 2: Planning and Design

UCLA Extension LARE 2 is a live online workshop. This class will cover the planning and design process beginning with stewardship and design principles for sustainable practices and cultural significance. Master planning will cover goal setting and programming through regional land use planning, site land use planning, plan preparation to methods of communicating outcomes. In Schematic design, students will review design intent, how to evaluate and refine design characteristics and functional relationships and their graphic product. Design development topics discussed will encompass design refinement, maintenance considerations, cost implications and sustainable design including legal liabilities.

Sample Problem Examples, Questions and supplemental study material will be provided.

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