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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.
 

Linguistics
  

  • LING 536 Semantics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Current linguistic approaches to the semantics of natural language; analysis of concepts of meaning and reference.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 537 Advanced Syntax

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Topics in advanced formal syntax; current literature leading to open questions in research; survey of important and controversial issues of current theoretical relevance.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 538 Selected Topics in Romance Syntax

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Overview of selected topics in Romance Syntax within a comparative perspective and their contribution towards the understanding of a general theory of grammar.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 539 Japanese/Korean Syntax and Theoretical Implications

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Critical discussion of selected papers and dissertations on Japanese/Korean syntax and consideration of their theoretical implications.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 540 Field Methods in Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Recording and analysis of a living language as employed by a native speaker of that language.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 541 Field Methods in Second Language Acquisition

    Units: 3
    Research design and methodology; data collection, coding, and analysis; ethical considerations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 542 Historical Linguistics

    Units: 3, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Principles of language change; the comparative method; structural and social factors in language change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 546 Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Analysis of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures of Proto-Indo-European, and its development in the various branches of Indo-European.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 547 Morphology

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to morphology: words versus sentences, the grammar of words, the various notions of “lexicon,” the architecture of the phonological component. This course is in preparation for advanced work in linguistic theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 548 Lexical Semantics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Languages group meaning elements together in different ways to form words. Consideration of how to identify these elements and how speakers map them into lexico-syntactic units.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 550 Advanced English Linguistics

    Units: 3
    The analysis of problems in the grammatical description and history of English.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 555 Comparative Germanic Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Nature and relationship of changes that led to the differentiation of the individual Germanic languages.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 557 Structure of the Chinese Language

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in EALC 557 )
  

  • LING 561 Topics and Issues in East Asian Linguistics

    Units: 4
    Max Units: max 12
    (Enroll in EALC 561 )
  

  • LING 573 Sociolinguistics

    Units: 3
    Theoretical approaches to language in social context; discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, variation theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 574 Advanced Sociolinguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Current issues in sociolinguistic theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 576 Psycholinguistics

    Units: 3
    Theories of acquisition; sentence and discourse processing; language and thought.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PSYC-576
  

  • LING 579 Child Language Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Acquisition of grammatical, discourse, and conversational competence; strategies and structures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 580 General Phonetics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Familiarization with articulation, transcription, production, and acoustic analysis of the speech sounds found in the world’s languages. Also speech technology, perception, and disorders. Includes laboratory exercises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 581 Topics in Advanced Phonology

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Topics in advanced formal phonology; theoretical issues in the interface of phonology with other areas of linguistics; literature study on themes of current theoretical relevance.
    Recommended Preparation: LING 531a , LING 531b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 582 Experimental Phonetics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Source-filter theory, acoustic correlates of speech sounds, vocal tract and auditory physiology, coarticulation and motor coordination, speech technology including synthesis and recognition, experimental design and statistics, and speech perception.
    Prerequisite: LING 580 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 585 Computational Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Using hands-on and research techniques, study of the role of linguistic knowledge and the procedures that implement it in computational systems that process natural language.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 586 Advanced Psycholinguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 9.0
    Current issues in psycholinguistic theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PSYC-586
  

  • LING 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

  

  • LING 593x Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts: Linguistics

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LING 595 Directed Readings

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research trends as reflected primarily in the current periodical literature.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 602 Seminar in Experimental Methods in Linguistics

    Units: 3
    Topics in quantitative methods in linguistics research, e.g., covariance structure analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, log linear model, metaanalysis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 610 Seminar in Linguistic Theory

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 615 Seminar in Linguistics Structures

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analysis of the synchronic or diachronic phonology, morphology, and syntax of individual languages.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 627 Seminar in Second Language Acquisition

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Readings in second language acquisition as the framework for a discussion and research-oriented seminar.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 631 Seminar in Phonological Theory

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 632 Seminar in Phonetics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Readings in phonetic theory and current research as the framework for a discussion-oriented class.
    Prerequisite: LING 580 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 635 Seminar in Syntax

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 636 Seminar in Semantics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PHIL-636
  

  • LING 645 Seminar in Language Change

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 675 Seminar in Sociolinguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LING 676 Seminar in Psycholinguistics

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as PSYC-676
  

  • LING 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

  

  • LING 794a Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • LING 794b Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • LING 794c Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • LING 794d Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • LING 794z Doctoral Dissertation

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


Materials Science
  

  • MASC 110L Materials Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Chemical bonding and structure in crystalline, amorphous, and molecular solids; tendency and mechanisms for chemical change; homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibria.
    Prerequisite: high school chemistry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 310 Materials Behavior and Processing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Principles of mechanical behavior and processing of materials. Relationships between mechanical properties, microstructure, and processing methods. Composites and nonmetallics included.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ACAD 312
  

  • MASC 334L Mechanical Behavior of Materials

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 334 )
  

  • MASC 350L Nanostructured Materials: Design, Synthesis, and Processing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Structure, properties, synthesis, processing and design of metallic, ceramic, polymeric, electronic, photonic, composite, nanophase and biomaterials; nanostructures, microfabrication and smart materials.
    Prerequisite: CHEM 105a  or CHEM 115a  or MASC 110 , PHYS 152 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 438L Processing for Microelectronics

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in EE 438 )
  

  • MASC 439 Principles of Semiconductor Processing

    Units: 3
    Principles relevant to semiconductor processing are covered. Topics include bulk and epitaxial crystal growth, photolithography, evaporation, sputtering, etching, oxidation, alloying, and ion implantation.
    Prerequisite: MASC 110 , EE 338 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EE 439
  

  • MASC 440 Materials and the Environment

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Interactions of metals, alloys and composite materials with liquid and gaseous corrosive environments; corrosion protection by alloying and application of inhibitors and metallic or organic coatings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 471 Applied Quantum Mechanics for Engineers

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in EE 471 )
  

  • MASC 472 Polymer Science and Engineering

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CHE 472 )
  

  • MASC 475 Physical Properties of Polymers

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in CHE 475 )
  

  • MASC 476 Chemical Engineering Materials

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CHE 476 )
  

  • MASC 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Course content will be selected each semester to reflect current trends and developments in the field of materials science.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 501 Solid State

    Units: 3
    Atomic structure, bonding in covalent, ionic and Van der Waals crystals, Brillouin zones, lattices, diffraction, electronic states, lattice vibrations, specific heat, electrical conductivity, and magnetism.
    Prerequisite: EE 471  or EE 539 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EE-501
  

  • MASC 502 Advanced Solid State

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Semiconductors, dielectrics and metals, thermoelectric effects, magnetism, magnetic resonance and superconductivity.
    Prerequisite: MASC 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EE-502
  

  • MASC 503 Thermodynamics of Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Classical thermodynamics, chemical potential, pure phases and mixtures; interphase relationships; binary and ternary solutions; free energy and activity; galvanic cell, electrochemical potential and Pourbaix diagram.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 504 Diffusion and Phase Equilibria

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Phase equilibria; phase diagrams; diffusion; planar defects; nucleation and growth; spinodal decomposition; phase transformation.
    Prerequisite: MASC 503 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 505 Crystals and Anisotropy

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Stereographic projection; Laue back reflection method; crystal orientation; line and planar crystalline defects; tensors; susceptibility; permeability and permittivity; stress and strain; piezoelectricity; elasticity.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 506 Semiconductor Physics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in EE 506 )
  

  • MASC 507 Micro- and Nano-Fabrication Technology

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in EE 507 )
  

  • MASC 508 Nano-Fabrication Lithography

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in EE 508 )
  

  • MASC 511 Materials Preparation

    Units: 3
    Principles and techniques of materials preparation; purification, crystal growth from liquid and vapor phases, sintering.
    Prerequisite: MASC 504 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 512 Thin Film Science and Technology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Science and technology of thin films; historical developments and motivation to achieve thin films, synthesis techniques, materials characterization, physical properties, and applications of thin films.
    Recommended Preparation: Upper Division/Graduate-level preparation in thermodynamics/quantum mechanics/solid state physics
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 514L Processing of Advanced Semiconductor Devices

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Statistical design of experiments, vapor deposition of thin film dielectrics, plasma etching, advanced lithography, in-situ sensors, process monitoring, quality control, assurance/reliability.
    Prerequisite: EE 504 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 523 Principles of Electrochemical Engineering

    Units: 3
    Electrochemical techniques; mass, charge, and heat transfer; electrochemical thermodynamics and electrode kinetics; electrochemical reactors; optimization; materials and corrosion; experimental modeling of industrial processes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CHE-523
  

  • MASC 524 Techniques and Mechanisms in Electrochemistry

    Units: 3
    Modern electrochemistry; in-situ techniques; in-situ probes of the near-electrode region; ex-situ emersion techniques; cyclic voltammetry, electroxidation, electrochemical reduction, reactive film formation, enzyme electrochemistry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 534 Materials Characterization

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Characterization of solids by optical microscopy, electron microscopy, (TEM, SEM) and elemental and structural analysis (EPMA, ESCA, AES, SIMS, HEED, LEED, SED).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EE-534
  

  • MASC 535L Transmission Electron Microscopy

    Units: 4
    Transmission electron microscopy and techniques. Specimen-electron beam interaction, electron diffraction and image formation. X-ray microanalysis. Laboratory involves hands-on training on the transmission electron microscope.
    Recommended Preparation: MASC 505 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MASC 536L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 539 Engineering Quantum Mechanics

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in EE 539 )
  

  • MASC 548 Rheology of Liquids and Solids

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CHE 548)
  

  • MASC 551 Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Mechanical properties of materials; macroscopic mechanical behavior related to structure and microstructure of the material; elementary dislocation theory related to basic strengthening mechanisms; fatigue and fracture; nanomaterials.
    Recommended Preparation: MASC 310 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-551
  

  • MASC 559 Creep

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Behavior of engineering materials at elevated temperatures; thermal stresses; creep mechanisms; interpretation of creep data; methods of predicting long-term strains.
    Duplicates Credit in former AME 559
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 559
  

  • MASC 560 Fatigue and Fracture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Behavior of materials under cyclic and static fatigue; plastic instability; life-time predictions; brittle and ductile fracture; crack propagation and plastic blunting.
    Duplicates Credit in former AME 560
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 560
  

  • MASC 561 Dislocation Theory and Applications

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Elasticity theory; types, sources, motion, interaction of dislocations; stress fields and strain energies; partial dislocations and stacking faults; principles of work-hardening.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME-561
  

  • MASC 562 Failure Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Apply fundamental Materials Science concepts to “real-world” material/product failures. Identify causes of material failures using analytical methodology/tools. Develop practical solutions to prevent future failures.
    Recommended Preparation: Undergraduate materials or materials selection courses
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 564 Composites Processing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Science underlying processes used to manufacture composite parts. Scope - constituent materials, processing challenges, defect control strategies, and bases for material and process selection/design.
    Recommended Preparation: Undergraduate course work in materials science and/or background in polymer processing; read 4 recent issues of Composites World (free on-line publication)
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 570 Introduction to Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion

    Units: 3
    Introduction to the physical principles, implementation materials, devices, and manufacturing costs of solar cells and panels for photovoltaic conversion of solar radiation to electricity.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 575 Basics of Atomistic Simulation of Materials

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Building a parallel computer from components; molecular dynamics method; computation of structural, thermodynamics and transport properties; simulation projects.
    Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in thermodynamics or statistical physics;
    Recommended Preparation: Fortran, Unix/Linux.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 576 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Materials and Processes

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Molecular dynamics method for atomistic simulations of materials and processes, simulations using parallel computing, correlation functions for structural and dynamical properties plus simulation project.
    Prerequisite: MASC 575 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 583 Materials Selection

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Materials selection in relationship to design and fabrication, economic considerations, methodology of selection, performance parameter; case studies.
    Duplicates Credit in former AME 588
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 588
  

  • MASC 584 Fracture Mechanics and Mechanisms

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Failure modes, stress concentrations, complex stress analysis, linear elastic fracture mechanics, yielding fracture mechanics, experimental methods, environmental assisted fracture and fatigue.
    Prerequisite: AME 403
    Duplicates Credit in former AME 584
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AME 584
  

  • MASC 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

  

  • MASC 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

  

  • MASC 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

  

  • MASC 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

  

  • MASC 598 Materials Science Seminar

    Units: 1
    Seminar in Materials Science research. To be taken only once for graduate credit.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • MASC 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 9.0
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 601 Advanced Semiconductor Device Physics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in EE 601 )
  

  • MASC 606 Nonequilibrium Processes in Semiconductors

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in EE 606 )
  

  • MASC 610 Molecular Beam Epitaxy

    Units: 3
    Basic principles, ultra high vacuum, machine considerations, source purity and calibrations temperature measurements, surface morphology and chemistry, growth procedures, III-V, II-VI and silicon MBE.
    Prerequisite: MASC 501 , MASC 503 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • MASC 690 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Laboratory study of specific problems by candidates for the degree Engineer in Materials Science.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • MASC 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

  

  • MASC 794a Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • MASC 794b Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • MASC 794c Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • MASC 794d Doctoral Dissertation

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

  

  • MASC 794z Doctoral Dissertation

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

 

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