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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.
 

Petroleum Engineering
  

  • PTE 506 Geothermal Reservoirs

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Geothermal reservoirs, heat and mass flow in fracture network, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), exploration methods, exploitation of hydrothermal and EGS fields, stimulation, forecasting, power generation.
    Recommended Preparation: familiarity with Matlab.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering and Geological Sciences students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 507 Engineering and Economic Evaluation of Subsurface Reservoirs

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Studies, data and methods for estimating size of underground fluid deposits for predicting physical and economic behavior of designed flow schemes, and for quantifying uncertainty.
    Prerequisite: PTE 464 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 508 Numerical Simulation of Subsurface Flow and Transport Processes

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Formulation and solution of the equations describing the underground flow of fluids through porous media. Includes mass (contaminant) transport in single and multiphase flow.
    Recommended Preparation: PTE 507 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 511 Advanced Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    From classical thermodynamics to engineering application; equations of state based calculations; PVT experiments; reservoir fluid characterization; PT-flash calculations and stability analysis; compositional grading; transport properties.
    Recommended Preparation: CHE 330 , MATH 226 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 512 Gas Injection Processes — Analytical Solutions and Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Gas injection and enhanced oil/gas recovery; conservation equations; flow and phase behavior; displacement efficiency; dispersion; method of characteristics; development of multicontact miscibility in multicomponent systems.
    Recommended Preparation: CHE 330 , MATH 226  and MATH 245  (or similar).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 514 Drilling Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Graduate level course on drilling engineering with an emphasis on field design and applications. Topics covered include well planning; rock mechanics; rotary drilling processes; drilling rig components; drill string and bottom hole assemblies; well hydraulics and drilling muds; casing design and cementing; directional drilling; offshore drilling and drilling economics.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 515 Natural Gas Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Characterization, development and prediction of natural gas reservoirs, including natural gas surface production equipment and systems, forecasting natural gas well and reservoir performance and current LNG developments
    Prerequisite: PTE 411  and PTE 412x 
    Recommended Preparation: Good handle of Excel, running VBA apps, programming macros and Matlab programming; concurrent enrollment in a computer programming class would be helpful
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 517 Testing of Wells and Aquifers

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Principles of well testing; down hole device; Aquifer tests; slug tests; DST; pressure transient modeling in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems; parameter estimation; computer aided techniques.
    Prerequisite: PTE 464 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 519 Integrated Physical and Cyber Security for Oil and Gas Operations

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Infrastructure Security, Resilience and Management of Digital Oil Fields, Process Control Networks in exploration and production, refining and chemical plants, Asset Integrity principles, case histories.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 531 Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Units: 3, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Survey of current enhanced oil recovery processes, including water-flooding, miscible displacement, and thermal oil recovery.
    Prerequisite: PTE 464 ;
    Recommended Preparation: PTE 507 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 542 Carbonate Rocks

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Classification; porosity development; source rocks; wettability; capillary pressure curves; compressibility; surface areas; relative permeabilities; various petrophysical properties; formation evaluation; overpressures; thin section analysis.
    Recommended Preparation: Basic familiarity with linear algebra and general reservoir engineering
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate Engineering students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 545 Corrosion Control in Petroleum Production

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Types of corrosion encountered in petroleum production; methods for practical control including use of inhibitors, coatings, and cathodic protection.
    Prerequisite: CHEM 430  or CHEM 430a  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in Engineering
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 555 Well Completion, Stimulation, and Damage Control

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    This course reviews current practices related to well completion methods, wellbore stimulation, and damage control. Formation damage prevention and stimulation methods are emphasized.
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 572 Geostatistics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Use of geostatistical methods for exploration and development of mineral and petroleum resources, application of semivariogram, kriging, cokriging, nonlinear and parametric estimation and conditional stimulation. Graduate standing.
    Recommended Preparation: knowledge of statistics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 574 Optimization Methods for Subsurface Energy Resources Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Optimization algorithms for oilfield development, including well control optimization, well placement, open-loop and closed-loop model predictive control, and robust optimization.
    Prerequisite: PTE 500 ;
    Recommended Preparation: Familiarity with linear algebra, vector calculus, general reservoir engineering and MATLAB programming language.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Engineering graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 578 Advanced Production Engineering

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Principles of onshore and offshore oil well & gas well production; design of artificial lift systems and surface operations; field problems of enhanced oil recovery operations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in the School of Engineering.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 581 Environmental Technology in the Petroleum Industry

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    This course examines engineering and scientific principles necessary for understanding, assessing, and remediating environmental problems in the petroleum industry including drilling, production, transportation and refining operations. Graduate standing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 582 Fluid Flow and Transport Processes in Porous Media

    Units: 3, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Principles of single and multiphase flow through porous media; mechanisms of immiscible and miscible displacement; momentum, heat and mass transport in porous media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 586 Intelligent and Collaborative Oilfield Systems Characterization and Management

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Review of soft computing methods such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, problematic reasoning in reservoir characterization, dynamic reservoir modeling, oilfield data integration and analysis of uncertainty in prediction. Limited to students with graduate standing.
    Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 587 Smart Completions, Oilfield Sensors and Sensor Technology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Intelligent Wellbore completion, technology of subsurface and surface sensors, deployment and data acquisition, telemonitoring and feedback, reliability of sensors, data transmission, systems networks.
    Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 588 Smart Oilfield Data Mining

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Methods for oilfield data mining, data preparation mining images, prediction and knowledge discovery, subset selection, pattern recognition. Limited to students with graduate standing.
    Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 589 Advanced Oilfield Operations with Remote Immersive Visualization and Control

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Immersive subsurface and surface environments, web based monitoring and feedback, visualizing risk, unattended operation. Limited to students with graduate standing.
    Recommended Preparation: prerequisites for non-majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    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

  

  • PTE 591 Petroleum Geochemistry

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Application of chemical principles to the study of the origin, migration, accumulation, and alteration of petroleum.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 592 Computational Geomechanics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Physical, mathematical and simulation aspects of coupled fluid flow and geomechanics in petroleum reservoirs.
    Recommended Preparation: PTE 500 , PTE 508 , AME 535a , AME 404 , AME 507 , and CE 529a 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master’s and doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 594 Formation Damage in Petroleum Reservoirs

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Overview of background and techniques required for understanding, assessing, and mitigating formation damage in petroleum and subsurface reservoirs.
    Recommended Preparation: Reservoir engineering, thermodynamics, petroleum reservoir fluids, fluid mechanics, Excel worksheets
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    For the master’s degree. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PTE 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    For the master’s degree. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PTE 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    For the master’s degree. Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PTE 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 9.0
    Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of petroleum engineering.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PTE 611 Stochastic Modeling and Simulation

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 611 )
  

  • PTE 690 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Laboratory study of specific problems for candidates for the degree engineer in petroleum engineering.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PTE 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    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

  

  • PTE 794a Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • PTE 794b Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • PTE 794c Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • PTE 794d Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • PTE 794z Doctoral Dissertation

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


Public Administration

Frequency of course offerings varies from campus to campus. Check with individual campuses regarding availability.
  

  • PUAD 613 Seminar in Financial Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Historical development and trends in public revenues and expenditures. Political, economic, and administrative significance of decisions in the field of financial management.
    Prerequisite: PPD 647 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 617 Seminar on Behavioral Aspects of Training and Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Theoretical concepts governing the administration of socio-technical systems, organization development, action training and research, and other development and change processes utilized in public service.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 675 Institutional Context of the Public Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theories of the role, structure and growth of the public sector; public choice processes; political economy of public bureaucracies; the voluntary nonprofit sector.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 685 Seminar on Organizational Behavior in Public Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Organizing processes; decision-making; communication; leadership; behavioral models; political and social behavior in organizations.
    Prerequisite: PPD 545 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 692 Multivariate Statistical Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Multivariate analysis of qualitative and quantitative variables including multiple linear regression, multiple contingency table analysis, log-linear and logit models, and path analysis.
    Prerequisite: PPD 502 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 695 Seminar in Administrative Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Assessment of current normative and descriptive theories of public administration; variety of conceptual systems; operationalism; levels of organizational analysis.
    Prerequisite: PPD 540 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 697 Seminar in Public Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Public management research and theory; differences between private and public organizations: contextual influences on public management; contemporary empirical studies; bibliographic research.
    Prerequisite: admission to the DPA program.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUAD 791a Public Administration Research Seminar

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Presentation and discussion of research histories and current research projects of members of the faculty and distinguished guest scholars.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ph.D. and D.P.A. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PUAD 791b Public Administration Research Seminar

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Presentation and discussion of research histories and current research projects of members of the faculty and distinguished guest scholars.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Ph.D. and D.P.A. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit


Public Diplomacy
  

  • PUBD 369w Public Diplomacy and Global Citizenship

    Units: 4
    Introduces public diplomacy as a central feature of contemporary international relations and challenges students to locate themselves as both its target and practitioners.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as COMM 369
  

  • PUBD 417 Global Engagement: Designing Public Diplomacy Strategies

    Units: 4
    Examines issues on the global political agenda and the tools and approaches that the Public Diplomacy practitioner might profitably employ to address them.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as COMM 417
  

  • PUBD 418 International Exchanges and Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Examines international exchanges, their role in the foreign policy process, and their challenges in a world marked by rapid change and innovation in communication technologies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as COMM 418
  

  • PUBD 419 Public Diplomacy in Los Angeles

    Units: 4
    Examines how the City of Los Angeles and other local actors use public diplomacy tools to strengthen ties between themselves and foreign audiences.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as COMM 419
  

  • PUBD 420 Regional Studies in Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 08
    Analyzes the role and effectiveness of public diplomacy in different countries, examining a region’s influence on global affairs and the development of diplomatic strategies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as COMM 420
  

  • PUBD 500 Introduction to the Advanced Study of Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Introduction to the advanced academic study of public diplomacy from multidisciplinary perspectives: including media and communication, international relations and history.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 502 Historical and Comparative Approaches to Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Examines historical and comparative approaches to public diplomacy. Explores public diplomacy operations in public and private settings, by individuals and institutions. Reviews traditional, critical, war, and peace perspectives.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 504 Global Issues and Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Focuses on critical global issues/challenges that require some form of intervention from the international community. Taught with active leading strategies: case studies and “problem-based learning.”
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 508 The Rhetoric of War and Peace

    Units: 4
    Special exercise in “Think Tank” procedure that explores rhetorics of war and peace from a 21st century perspective.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 509 Advocacy in Public Diplomacy: Argumentation and Debate

    Units: 4
    Skills and theory based approach to the criticism and development of public diplomacy campaigns. Emphasizes the instruction of advocacy skills to assess the utility of specific campaigns.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 510 Technologies and Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Explores relationship between diplomacy and technological change. Emphasis on question of how new media may force us to rethink traditional frameworks of public diplomacy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 512 Cultural Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Provides overview of formal cultural diplomacy and concentrates on ways in which non-governmental entities communicate across international boundaries and the effects of those interchanges.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 514 Corporate Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Provides basic public diplomacy and public relations tools for global organizations and their foreign publics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 515 Transnational Diplomacy and Global Security

    Units: 4
    Examination of the historical and theoretical basis of diplomatic relationships between states, international organizations, and transnational nonstate actors in developing global peace and security policies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 516 International Broadcasting

    Units: 4
    History, context and practice of global international broadcasting strategies; technological and financial parameters that shape future international broadcasting strategies; use of radio, television, and Internet.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 518 International Exchanges and Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Examination of educational and cultural exchanges; variety and experience of participants, flagship exchange programs, economic and social implications of the programs, and measurement of outcomes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 519 News Media and the Foreign Policy Process

    Units: 4
    Analysis of news media’s role in contemporary diplomacy; historical context; consideration of the professional practices of journalists and those who devise and implement foreign policy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 520 Regional Studies in Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 16.0
    In-depth examination of historical, political, economic, cultural factors that influence public diplomacy efforts within specific geographic regions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 522 Hard Power, Soft Power and Smart Power

    Units: 4
    Institutional and cultural perspectives on instruments of state power: military, intelligence, trade, and traditional diplomacy; strategic analyses for determining proper use; desirability of combining resources.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 524 The Public Diplomacy of Trade

    Units: 4
    Public diplomacy’s role in shaping ideas about trade and development and in creating trade agreements, and the use of trade agreements as public diplomacy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 526 Public Diplomacy Evaluation

    Units: 4
    Critical examination of challenges and benefits of measuring public diplomacy’s impact; terminology and mechanics of evaluation, the measurement community, and varying approaches for evaluation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PUBD 590 Directed Research

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

  

  • PUBD 596 Practicum in Public Diplomacy Research

    Units: 4
    Development and production of original research-based project in the area of public diplomacy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PUBD 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Special topics in the area of public diplomacy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Quantitative Biology
  

  • QBIO 105 Introduction to Quantitative Biology Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to quantitative biology including a definition of its role within the Biological Sciences and relationship with Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics.
    Registration Restriction: Open to QBIO majors or by permission of the department
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • QBIO 478 Computational Genome Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in BISC 478)
  

  • QBIO 481 Structural Bioinformatics: From Atoms to Cells

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in BISC 481 )
  

  • QBIO 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings. Project approval by QBIO committee or faculty adviser required.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to QBIO undergraduates
    Credit Restriction: Not available for graduate credit
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • QBIO 493 Quantitative Biology Honors Seminar

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 04
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Student-led discussions of recent research in quantitative biology and presentation of their own research.
    Prerequisite: QBIO 105 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Quantitative Biology undergraduates
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • QBIO 494x Quantitative Biology Honors Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Experience in conducting research and writing a thesis under supervision of a faculty adviser.
    Prerequisite: QBIO 493 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Quantitative Biology undergraduates
    Credit Restriction: Not available for graduate credit
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • QBIO 499 Special Topics

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 08
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Topics in specialized areas of the quantitative biological sciences.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to QBIO majors. Other majors require permission from the instructor
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Real Estate Development
  

  • RED 351 Land Use Regulation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Land use planning and zoning; community and government relations; environmental regulation.
    Recommended Preparation: RED 362 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 362 Real Estate Development Fundamentals

    Units: 4
    Real estate overview; evolution of cities and neighborhoods; product types; introduction to valuation.
    Prerequisite: (PPD 227  or PPD 245 ) and (MATH 108  or MATH 117  or MATH 118  or MATH 125 )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 375 Real Estate Development Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Real estate development feasibility and analysis; underwriting local fundamentals including neighborhood and city change, real estate capital flows
    Prerequisite: BUAD 215x  and ECON 203g  and RED 362  
    Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 375
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 398 Shaping Cities Through Real Estate

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 08
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Cities and urban form created through various real estate product types. Case studies and site visits.
    Recommended Preparation: RED 362 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 417 History of Planning and Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Historical evolution of planning and development. How changing modes of planning and development have shaped the built landscape throughout the century.
    Prerequisite: PPD 227  or PPD 245g  
    Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 417
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 425 Designing Livable Communities

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theories and concepts of livable communities and good city form; case studies of historical and current best practices; field visits; collaborative design project.
    Prerequisite: PPD 227  or PPD 245g  
    Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 425.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 435 Analyzing Real Estate Markets

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Macro and micro-analysis of urban property markets; demographics; location choice; regulation
    Prerequisite: PPD 303  and RED 375  
    Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 435
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 437 Advanced Finance and Investment for Real Estate Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Advanced real estate principles. Underwriting property valuation and deal structure including risk and return. Debt and equity markets; difference between development and existing assets.
    Prerequisite: RED 435  
    Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 437
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings. 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Selected topics in real estate development.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 500 Real Estate Development and the Economy

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Linkages between national and regional economies and the performance of the real estate sector. Anticipating development trends. Public policy applications.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 509 Market Analysis for Real Estate

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores macro and micro aspects of residential, retail, office, and industrial markets and examines methodologies for analyzing such markets for real estate development/investment purposes.
    Prerequisite: RED 542 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 510 Real Estate Practice and Principles

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental principles of real estate analysis; economics; capital markets; development decision-making; relationships between real estate markets and federal, state and local government policies; property value.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 511 Foundations of Real Estate Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Principles of real estate analysis; capital markets; importance of uncertainty and metrics of risk; investments; valuation techniques; use of debt and equity, leases, taxes.
    Prerequisite: RED 510 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 512 Real Estate Project Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamental economic theories; analytical techniques; practical applications for market analysis of various forms of real estate.
    Prerequisite: RED 511 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 541 Finance Fundamentals for Real Estate Development

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Introduction to the general principles of finance with application to real estate development, including capital markets, financial institutions, valuation and risk management.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 542 Finance of Real Estate Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Theory and methods of real estate finance and investment. Real estate investment analysis, real estate entities, taxation; introduction to securization of real estate equities, debt.
    Prerequisite: RED 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 544 Real Estate Capital Markets

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explore structure, instruments and institutions of real estate capital markets. Consider linkages between real estate and capital markets. Assess role of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
    Prerequisite: RED 542  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 545 Advanced Real Estate and Financial Modeling

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Quantitative problem solving using computerized modeling. Complex debt financing, including lender participation, subordination, joint venture structuring, systematic treatment of real estate portfolios.
    Prerequisite: RED 542 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 546 Applications of Real Estate Finance to Problems of Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced topics in finance applied to cases and problems of real estate development; emphasis on structuring, finance and evaluation of various types of development projects.
    Prerequisite: RED 542 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 547 Project Management and Construction

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Managing the building phase of development. Architectural and engineering aspects of construction management for the real estate developer.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 551 The Approval Process

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Approval process for real estate development including land use entitlement, site selection, zoning, environmental review, community and government relations, infrastructure financing, ethical issues, negotiation skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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