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1062012-2014 General Catalog Course Supplement and Policies and Requirements Addendum171. Music from Latin America (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:consent of instructor. Examination of music from LatinAmerica. Characteristic music (i.e., tango, bossanova, salsa, música motena, musica andina) as wellas its implications in other musical genres. Taught inSpanish. Not open to students who have takencourse 171S or Music 127. (Same course as Music127.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit:ArtHum | AH, WC.—II.(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)171S. Music from Latin America (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:consent of instructor. Examination of music from LatinAmerica. Characteristic music (i.e., tango, bossanova, salsa, musica motena, música andina) as wellas its implications in other musical genres. Taught inSpanish and in a Spanish speaking country underthe supervision of UC Davis faculty. Not open to studentswho have taken course 171 or Music 127. GEcredit: ArtHum | AH, WC.—II. (II.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)180. Senior Seminar in Spanish Linguistics(4)Seminar—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: seniorstanding; a major in Spanish or consent of instructor.Group study of a special topic drawn from Spanishlinguistics. Limited enrollment. May be repeated onetime for credit. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci | AH orSS, OL, WE.—I. (I.) Blake, Bradley, Colombi(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)181. Senior Seminar in Spanish Literature/Culture (4)Seminar—3 hours; term paper—1 hour. Prerequisite:senior standing; a major in Spanish or consent ofinstructor. Group study of a special topic drawn fromSpanish literary or cultural studies. Independentresearch project. May be repeated one time forcredit if content differs. Limited enrollment. GEcredit: ArtHum | AH, OL, WE.—II. (II.) Altisent,González, Martin, Martínez-Carazo(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)182. Senior Seminar in Latin AmericanLiterature/Culture (4)Seminar—3 hours; term paper—1 hour. Prerequisite:senior standing; a major in Spanish or consent ofinstructor. Group study of a special topic drawn fromLatin American literary or cultural studies. Independentresearch project. May be repeated one time forcredit if content differs. Limited enrollment. GEcredit: ArtHum | AH, OL, WC, WE.—III. (III.) Bejel,Egan, Irwin, Lazzara, Peluffo(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)194H. Special Study for Honors Students(1-5)Independent Study—3-15 hours. Prerequisite: Seniorstanding and qualification for the Spanish honorsprogram. Guided research, under the direction of afaculty member, leading to a senior honors thesis ona topic in Spanish literature, civilization, or languagestudies. May be repeated for up to 8 units ofcredit. (P/NP grading only.) GE credit: AH, WC,WE.(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)198. Directed Group Study (1-5)Prerequisite: consent of instructor and DepartmentChairperson. (P/NP grading only.) GE credit: AH,WC, WE.(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)199. Special Study for AdvancedUndergraduates (1-5)May be repeated for up to 6 units of credit (P/NPgrading only.) GE credit: AH, WC, WE.(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)Graduate203. Research Methodologies (1)Seminar—2 hour. Introduction to the range of scholarlyresearch methodologies currently being realizedin Spanish linguistics, literary and cultural studies:archival research, textual analysis, discourse analysis,statistics for linguistics, etc.; introduction to scholarlywriting (MLA style) and scholarly publishing. (S/U grading only.)—II. (II.) Altisent, Bejel, Bernucci,Blake, Carazo, Colombi, Egan, Irwin, Martin, Martinez-Lazzara,Newcomb, Peluffo(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)StatisticsNew and changed courses inStatistics (STA)Lower Division13V. Elementary Statistics (4)(change in existing course—eff. fall 13)13Y. Elementary Statistics (4)Lecture—1.5 hours; web virtual lecture—5 hours.Prerequisite: two years of high school algebra or theequivalent in college. Descriptive statistics; basicprobability concepts; binomial, normal, Student's t,and chi-square distributions. Hypothesis testing andconfidence intervals for one and two means and proportions.Regression. Not open for credit for studentswho have completed course 13, or higher. GEcredit: SciEng | QL, SE.—I. (I.) Utts(new course—eff. fall 13)Upper Division130A. Mathematical Statistics: Brief Course(4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:Mathematics16B. Basic probability, densities anddistributions, mean, variance, covariance, Chebyshev’sinequality, some special distributions, samplingdistributions, central limit theorem and law oflarge numbers, point estimation, some methods ofestimation, interval estimation, confidence intervalsfor certain quantities, computing sample sizes. Only2 units of credit allowed to students who have takencourse 131A. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—I. (I.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)130B. Mathematical Statistics: Brief Course(4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 130A. Transformed random variables, largesample properties of estimates. Basic ideas ofhypotheses testing, likelihood ratio tests, goodnessof-fittests. General linear model, least squares estimates,Gauss-Markov theorem. Analysis of variance,F-test. Regression and correlation, multiple regression.Selected topics. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—II. (II.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)131A. Introduction to Probability Theory (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:Mathematics 21A, 21B, 21C, and 22A. Fundamentalconcepts of probability theory, discrete and continuousrandom variables, standard distributions,moments and moment-generating functions, laws oflarge numbers and the central limit theorem. Notopen for credit to students who have completedMathematics 135A. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—I,II, III. (I, II, III.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)131B. Introduction to MathematicalStatistics (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 131A or consent of the instructor. Sampling,methods of estimation, sampling distributions, confidenceintervals, testing hypotheses, linear regression,analysis of variance, elements of large sampletheory and nonparametric inference. GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE.—II, III. (II, III.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)131C. Introduction to MathematicalStatistics (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 131B, or consent of the instructor. Sampling,methods of estimation, sampling distributions, confidenceintervals, testing hypotheses, linear regression,analysis of variance, elements of large sampletheory and nonparametric inference. GE credit:SciEng | SE, QL.—III. (III.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)133. Mathematical Statistics for Economists(4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 103 and Mathematics 16B, or the equivalents;no credit will be given to students majoring inStatistics. Probability, basic properties; discrete andcontinuous random variables (binomial, normal, t,chi-square); expectation and variance of a randomvariable; bivariate random variables (bivariate normal);sampling distributions; central limit theorem;estimation, maximum likelihood principle; basics ofhypotheses testing (one-sample). GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE.—I. (I.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)135. Multivariate Data Analysis (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 130B, and preferably course 131B. Multivariatenormal distribution; Mahalanobis distance; samplingdistributions of the mean vector andcovariance matrix; Hotelling’s T 2 ; simultaneous inference;one-way MANOVA; discriminant analysis;principal components; canonical correlation; factoranalysis. Intensive use of computer analyses and realdata sets. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—III. (III.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)137. Applied Time Series Analysis (4)Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course108 or the equivalent. Time series relationships,cyclical behavior, periodicity, spectral analysis,coherence, filtering, regression, ARIMA and statespacemodels; Applications to data from economics,engineering, medicine environment using time seriessoftware. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.—III. (III.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)141. Statistical Computing (4)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—1 hour. Prerequisite:one introductory class in Statistics (such as 13, 32,100, or 102), or the equivalent. Organization ofcomputations to access, transform, explore, analyzedata and produce results. Concepts and vocabularyof statistical/scientific computing. GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE.—I. (I.)(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)142. Reliability (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion/laboratory—1 hour.Prerequisite: course 130B or 131B or consent ofinstructor. Stochastic modeling and inference for reliabilitysystems. Topics include coherent systems, statisticalfailure models, notions of aging, maintenancepolicies and their optimization. Offered in alternateyears. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE.(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)145. Bayesian Statistical Inference (4)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—1 hour. Prerequisite:courses 130A and 130B, or 131A and 131B, or theequivalent. Subjective probability, Bayes Theorem,conjugate priors, non-informative priors, estimation,testing, prediction, empirical Bayes methods, propertiesof Bayesian procedures, comparisons with classicalprocedures, approximation techniques, GibbsQuarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2013-2014 offering in parenthesesPre-Fall 2011 General Education (GE): ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Domestic Diversity; Wrt=Writing ExperienceFall 2011 and on General Education (GE): AH=Arts and Humanities; SE=Science and Engineering; SS=Social Sciences;ACGH=American Cultures; DD=Domestic Diversity; OL=Oral Skills; QL=Quantitative; SL=Scientific; VL=Visual; WC=World Cultures; WE=Writing Experience