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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Astronautics and Space Technology
  

  • ASTE 694z Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Required for the degree Engineer in Astronautical Engineering. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTE 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the division.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTE 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTE 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTE 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTE 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTE 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit


Astronomy
  

  • ASTR 100Lgx The Universe

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Survey of the universe: planets, satellites, comets, stars, nebulae, galaxies. Practical component includes planetary observations and dark-sky field trip.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category E: Physical Sciences
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category III: Scientific Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required, Quiz
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 104L Special Laboratory

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Laboratory component for ASTR 100Lgx  for transfer students with equivalent lecture credit from another institution. For transfer students only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ASTR 200Lg Life in the Universe

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Survey of the prospects for life in our solar system and beyond, based on the evolution of life on Earth.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category E: Physical Sciences
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 400 The Solar System

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Earth’s motions; planets and their satellites; comets; meteorites; interplanetary matter; elementary celestial mechanics.
    Prerequisite: MATH 226 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 422 Galaxies and Large-Scale Structures in the Universe

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Galaxies and clusters of galaxies: their content, structure, dynamics, distribution, and motions; the cosmic microwave background: theory and observation; elements of observational cosmology.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 153L  or PHYS 163L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 424 Cosmology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Concepts of space-time, general relativity applied to an homogeneous and expanding universe. Universe’s content and thermal history. Introduction to current observational tests of cosmology.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 153L  or PHYS 163L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 450 Stellar Astrophysics

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Observation and theory of stellar atmospheres and stellar interiors. Theory of stellar evolution. Physical and astronomical significance of the end states of stellar evolution.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 153L  or PHYS 163L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
    Prerequisite: one upper-division course in astronomy and departmental approval.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 540 Advanced Cosmology

    Units: 3
    Perturbed Einstein’s and Boltzman equations, Universe’s content, anisotropies: initial conditions, linear evolution, comparison with observations.
    Prerequisite: PHYS 504 , PHYS 508a , PHYS 508b , PHYS 510 , PHYS 518 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ASTR 740 Selected Topics in Astrophysics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Selected topics in cosmology. Course content includes dark matter, dark energy, gravitational lensing, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, galaxy and galaxy cluster surveys.
    Prerequisite: ASTR 540 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Business Entrepreneurship
  

  • BAEP 310 Launching Disruptive Ventures

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamentals of entrepreneurship tracing new venture evolution, including recognition of disruptive opportunities, entrepreneurial financial analysis, and understanding the innovator’s and investor’s mindsets.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 181  or BUAD 201x .
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 423, BAEP 450, BAEP 451, BUAD 301.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD-310
  

  • BAEP 423 Management of Small Businesses

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Strategic, organizational, financial, and human issues facing the small business.
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 310 and BAEP 450 and BAEP 451 and BUAD 301.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 450 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Starting and managing one’s own business: developing a viable concept, organizing the enterprise, market and financial planning, and controlling the organization.
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 310, BAEP 423, BAEP 451, BUAD 301.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 451 The Management of New Enterprises

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Development of analytical and conceptual skills in entrepreneurship and venture management.
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 310, BAEP 423, BAEP 450, BUAD 301.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 452 Feasibility Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Students develop, analyze, and validate entrepreneurial concepts (including marketing, operational, and financial considerations) using customer feedback and risk assessment to conclude worthiness to pursue.
    Prerequisite: BAEP 310  or BAEP 423  or BAEP 450  or BAEP 451  or BUAD 301 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 453 Venture Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Design and application of organization structures and systems in management of new ventures.
    Prerequisite: BAEP 310   or BAEP 423  or BAEP 450  or BAEP 451  or BUAD 301  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 454 Venture Initiation: Launching and Scaling Your Startup

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Learn to build a startup from concept to reality. Focus on real-world entrepreneurial action and execution.
    Prerequisite: BAEP 452 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 455 Founder’s Dilemmas

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp

    Prepares potential founders, hires, and investors for the decisions they will face both before and during their involvement with new ventures.

     
    Registration Restriction: Open only to sophomores, juniors, and seniors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 460 Seminar in Entrepreneurship

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Perspectives into the art and science of entrepreneurship under the guidance of a master instructor. Specific topics vary.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 465 Digital Playbook for Entrepreneurs: Creating a Tech Startup

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Learn to use digital tools and technologies, such as social media, mobile, cloud computing, and e-commerce, to start and grow entrepreneurial ventures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 469 Growth Hacking: Scaling Startups

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Accelerate the growth of an entrepreneurial business with applied analytics tools and methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 470 The Entrepreneurial Mindset — Taking the Leap

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A deeper insight into the entrepreneurial mind, how it approaches opportunities and challenges and gives leadership to an organization.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 471 Social Innovation Design Lab

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to design thinking as applied to innovation and entrepreneurship. Hands-on projects to create solutions to specific societal problems faced by underprivileged communities.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to sophomores, juniors and seniors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 472 The Science of Peak Performance

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Ingrains expertise and application of the science of peak performance, broadens preparation for personal challenge, and builds business-centered critical thinking and applied analytical skills.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to sophomores, juniors and seniors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 474 The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Intellectual Property

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The fundamentals of intellectual property – its value, its basic workings, and its role in entrepreneurship, business in general, science, the arts, and the professions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 475 Entertainment Entrepreneurship

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp

    Explore the current entrepreneurial trends and opportunities in the entertainment industry and uncover the key success factors for entrepreneurs in this industry.

     
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 480 Entrepreneurial Family Business

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Explores the dynamics of family and privately held businesses. Exploring generational and extended family issues, opportunities and obstacles faced in today’s environment.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 491 Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of social enterprise models from micro-finance to job development. Analysis of basic issues regarding the difference between socially responsible companies, for-profit, and non-profit-run enterprises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 495 Practicum in Business Issues (Internship)

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Combined classroom discussion and field application of business theories and practices; part-time internship employment. Project to be jointly defined by student, employer and professor.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 496 The Digital Startup Launchpad

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Real-life challenge of imagining, prototyping, testing and iterating, building, pricing, marketing, distributing and selling a digital product or service.
    Prerequisite: BAEP 452  and ITP 466  and ITP 476 
    Corequisite: ITP 496 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 497 Field Project in Entrepreneurship

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual or team projects solving real problems for an enterprise. Situation analyses; research proposal composition; field research techniques; statistical analysis; oral and written presentations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors and seniors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Current developments in the field of entrepreneurship: topics to be selected each semester.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 549 The Entrepreneurial Journey

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An introduction to entrepreneurship with a focus on opportunity recognition and the entrepreneurial mindset. Development of knowledge and skills in launching new ventures.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to BUSV, ENTR, and MMM majors
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 550 , BAEP 551 , GSBA 550a  and GSBA 550b 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 550 Entrepreneurship and Venture Management

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Develop conceptual and practical knowledge in entrepreneurship and new venture management.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business and accounting students
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 549 , BAEP 551 , GSBA 550a  and GSBA 550b 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 551 Introduction to New Ventures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Study and development of analytical and conceptual skills in the management of new enterprises and new ventures within large organizations.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business and accounting students
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 549 , BAEP 550 , GSBA 550a  and GSBA 550b 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 552 Cases in Feasibility Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Study of analytical techniques used to evaluate business concepts and new business development.
    Corequisite: BAEP 549  or BAEP 550  or BAEP 551  or (GSBA 550a  andGSBA 550b )
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate business and accounting majors.
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 566  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 553 Cases in New Venture Management

    Units: 1.5, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Cases and readings expose students to the challenges of developing long-range strategies for entrepreneurial ventures. Case work emphasizes developing new industries, growth through strategic alliances, and issues involved in the long-term strategic positioning of emerging companies.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 554 Venture Initiation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Learn to launch and scale a new business through entrepreneurial action and execution.
    Prerequisite: BAEP 552  or BAEP 556  or BAEP 566 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 555 Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Delves into founders’ early decisions about when and whether to found, co-founders, hires, and investors that tend to get them into trouble down the road.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 556 Technology Feasibility

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Learn critical thinking and analytical skills they need to evaluate, value, and manage technology as intellectual property. Understand the technology commercialization process, use data mining and assessment techniques for patent databases, and study the unique business issues facing high technology start-ups.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate business and accounting students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 557 Technology Commercialization

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Identification, evaluation and commercialization of new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on the legal, financial and marketing aspects of technology transfer and development.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate business and accounting students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 558 The Entrepreneurial Advisor: Problem Solving for Early-Stage Companies

    Units: 1.5, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Experiential course designed to develop skills in framing and solving complex problems in young companies. Apply skills to real ventures participating in course projects.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 559 Investing in New Ventures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Focus on the entrepreneurial skill set applied to new venture opportunities. Taught from the business plan reader’s point of view; focus on selecting opportunities, structuring the relationship, adding value and realizing the value of that investment.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate business and accounting students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 560 Acquiring Your Own Business or Opportunity

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Issues faced by the entrepreneur who wishes to acquire an enterprise; appropriateness of an enterprise, understanding funding sources and valuation methods, developing a plan for due diligence, negotiating and consummating the transaction. The acquisition process, approaches to valuation, and the roles of the various parties in negotiating and consummating an acquisition of an existing business.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 561 Entrepreneurship in Innovative Industries: Life Sciences

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The challenges of new venture creation in the biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare areas; experience, evaluate, and analyze profits of current impact in the life sciences.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 562 Entrepreneurship in eCommerce

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to building, funding, and running an entrepreneurial eCommerce venture.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 563 Corporate Entrepreneurship

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    How established organizations build successful new businesses through corporate venturing and intrapreneurship. Learn to apply an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial frameworks within an established organization.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 564 Investing in Impact Ventures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Exploring the field of social impact investing, learn how social entrepreneurs attract for-profit investors and how conscious investors are utilizing investments to achieve social impact.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate business and accounting majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 566 Cases in Feasibility Analysis for Social Ventures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Study of analytical techniques used to evaluate business concepts with a specific focus on the development of a new social venture.
    Corequisite: BAEP 591  
    Duplicates Credit in BAEP 552  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 567 Social Entrepreneurship: Design, Develop, and Deliver

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Develop the analytical, conceptual, and practical skills required to design, develop, and deliver a new social business concept and opportunity.
    Prerequisite: BAEP 556 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students in Social Entrepreneurship
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 571 Social Innovation Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Use innovative problem-solving approaches to design radically affordable solutions to challenges faced by under-resourced communities. Engage in early-stage market and rapid prototyping.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students in Social Entrepreneurship
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 575 Entrepreneurship in the Media and Entertainment Industry

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the ever-evolving field of media and entertainment with a focus on entrepreneurial opportunities within the industry.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 591 Social Entrepreneurship

    Units: 2, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Lead and manage with entrepreneurial methodology for charities, non-government organizations, social oriented enterprises and not for profit organizations.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate business and accounting majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BAEP 592 Field Research in Business Entrepreneurship

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4
    Max Units: 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual or team projects studying the business practices of an entrepreneurial industry, company, government agency, country, etc. Proposal, data collection, analyses, and written report. (Recommended Preparation: completion of required MBA, MAcc, MBT, MKT, MSEI or MSSE course work)
    Recommended Preparation: Completion of required MBA, MAcc, MBT, MKT, MSEI or MSSE course work
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 593 Independent Research in Business Entrepreneurship

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4,
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Independent research beyond normal course offerings. Proposal, research and written report/paper required.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 595 Internship in Business Entrepreneurship

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2
    Max Units: 09
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised on-the-job business experience in the student’s area of interest. (Curricular Practical Training.) Recommended preparation: completion of required MBA, MAcc, MBT, MKT, MSEI, or MSSE course work.
    Recommended Preparation: Completion of required MBA, MAcc, MBT, MKT, MSEI, or MSSE course work.
    Registration Restriction: Application required. Open only to specified graduate accounting and business students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 596 Research Practicum in Business Entrepreneurship

    Units: 0.5-2,
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Hands-on practical experience working with a faculty member in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies on an ongoing research project.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 597 Consulting Project in Business Entrepreneurship

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual or team project solving real business problems for an existing business entity, domestic and/or international. Proposal, field research, analyses and oral and written presentations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Master and Doctoral Students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 598 Special Topics

    Units: 1, 1.5, 2, 3
    Max Units: 09
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Current developments in the field of entrepreneurship: topics to be selected each semester. Graded CR/NC.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BAEP 599 Special Topics

    Units: 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3
    Max Units: 09
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Current developments in the field of entrepreneurship: topics to be selected each semester.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate accounting and business students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Biochemistry
  

  • BIOC 501 Recent Advances in Biochemistry

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 16
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Lectures on areas of intermediary metabolism and the chemistry of natural products.
    Prerequisite: BISC 435  and CHEM 431 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 502 Biochemistry Seminar

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Formal presentations and discussion by students of material from research literature.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 504 Molecular Biology of Cancer

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in INTD 504 )
  

  • BIOC 510 Introductory Molecular Biology

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Principles of molecular biology with applications to the medical sciences. Nucleic acid structure, function, and analysis.
    Recommended Preparation: a course in biochemistry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 522 Applications of Physical Methods in Biochemistry

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Applications of physical analytical methods commonly utilized in research in biochemistry and molecular biology.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: CHEM 521 . (Langen)
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 531 Cell Biology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in INTD 531 )
  

  • BIOC 536 Molecular Biology of Cellular Communication in the Nervous System

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Discussion of cellular communications in the nervous system through neurotransmitters and their receptors, neuromodulators; biochemical changes during development and the impact of human genomic research.
    Recommended Preparation: one year of general biochemistry or molecular biology. (Tokes)
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 542 Cellular and Molecular Basis of Animal Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Processes of cell type specification, determination, and morphogenesis in metazoans from vertebrates to insects. Genetic, paragenetic and molecular biological approaches to developmental processes.
    Prerequisite: INTD 571 . (Maxson)
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 543 Human Molecular Genetics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Comprehensive course covering basic principles of human genetics, genetic disease, the Human Genome Project, and gene therapy.
    Recommended Preparation: undergraduate genetics. (Allayee)
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PM-549
  

  • BIOC 549 Protein Chemistry – Structure and Function

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in INTD 549 )
  

  • BIOC 551 Prokaryotic Molecular Genetics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in MICB 551 )
  

  • BIOC 555 Biochemical and Molecular Bases of Disease

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in INTD 555 )
  

  • BIOC 557 Biochemistry of Anti-Cancer Agents

    Units: 2
    Explore how the development of various classes of anti-cancer drugs came about: the rationales behind their design, what was discovered about their biochemical mechanisms of action and whether their clinical activities came up to the original expectations. Other aspects such as the origin of the concepts of combination chemotherapy and biochemical modulation will also be addressed.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 561 Molecular Biology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 561 )
  

  • BIOC 571 Biochemistry

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 571 )
  

  • BIOC 573 Optimal Research Presentations by PhD Students

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 12
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Students will attend lectures by peers, and after their first year in the PhD program, prepare and present their own research to an audience of faculty and peers.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Molecular Epidemiology majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 574 Systems Physiology and Disease II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in INTD 573 )
  

  • BIOC 575 Predictive and Prognostic Biomarkers in Cancer Treatment

    Units: 2
    Exploration of how appropriate biomarkers can predict response to cancer therapy, tumor recurrence after surgery, rapid detection of tumor response and overall prognosis.
    Recommended Preparation: INTD 571  and a basic understanding of molecular biology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 581 Toolbox for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores the principles and applications of traditional and state-of-the-art methods in molecular biology and biochemistry with live demonstrations of techniques when feasible.
    Recommended Preparation: Fundamental knowledge of DNA, RNA and protein
    Concurrent Enrollment: BIOC 571 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 03
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Part-time or full-time, practical work experience in the student’s field of study. The internship must be located at an off-campus facility. Students are individually supervised by faculty. May not be taken until the student has completed at least one semester of enrollment in the graduate program with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • BIOC 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • BIOC 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

 

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