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THE HSSEAS Curriculum Lower-Division Prep You are here Core Classes Major Field Courses Major Field Electives Technical Breadth HSSEAS General Electives

HSSEAS Advanced Placement Credit MATH AB EXAM Score 4: 4 Excess Units, No Application Score 5: 4 Excess Units, May be applied to Math 31A Recommendation Take Math 31A

MATH BC EXAM Score 4: 4 Excess Units + 4 Units that may be applied to Math 31A Recommendation Take Math 31A Score 5: Math 31A + 4 Units that may be applied to Math 31B Recommendation Take Math 31B

Fall 2019 CEED Frosh Math Comparison COURSE NON-CEED CEED Math 31A 2.715 (175) 3.332 (19) Many had 5 on AB. Many also had BC Scores Math 31B 2.806 (162) 3.613 (24) Most had 5 on BC Exam Math 32A 3.392 (194) 3.575 (16) All had 5 on BC Exam

AP CHEMISTRY EXAM Score 4 or 5: 4 excess units + 4 units (may be applied for Chem 20A) Recommendation Take Chem 20A at UCLA (EE s may consider applying AP credit) (20A not req d for Computer Majors)

PHYSICS B EXAM 4 or 5: excess units, no application PHYSICS C EXAM 4 or 5: 4 units, may apply to Phys 1A COMPUTER A / AB/Principles 4 or 5: excess units, no application

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Fall Qtr Recommendations MATHEMATICS COMP SCI 31 (CS/EE Majors) or CHEM 20A (All Others) ENGLISH COMP or HSSEAS GE Major Intro Course: BioE 10, ChemE 10, Civil 1, CS 1, EE 1, Mat Sci 10, MAE 1 (if it fits your schedule) TOTAL: 12 - 15 Units

MATH COURSES MATH 1 -- PreCalculus Lecture 1, Dr. M.P. Greene MWF 10 - 10:50 Disc: Tues or Thurs, 10:00 10:50 Final: Wednesday, Dec 16, 8:00 11:00 Note: Take Math 1 if you have not completed at least 1 year of Calculus Requires successful completion of the Math Diagnostic Test, minimum score 18 / 60

MATH 31AL Differential and Integral Calculus Laboratory Lecture 1, Dr. Conley MWF 9:00 9:50 Discussion: Tu andTh, 9:00 9:50 (both days) Final: Monday, December 14, 8:00 11:00 Requires successful completion of the Math Diagnostic Test with a score between 36-48 / 60

MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus Lecture 2 or 3, Dr. Willis MWF 9:00 9:50 or MWF 10:00 10:50 Discussion: Tu or Th, 9 9:50 or 10 10:50 Same Final: Sunday, Dec 13, 3:00 6:00 Requires successful completion of the Math Diagnostic Test with a score of at least 48 / 60

MATH 31B Integration and Infinite Series Lecture 3, Dr. Moreno MWF 3:00 3:50 Disc: Tues or Thurs, 3:00 3:50 Final: Monday, Dec 14, 3:00 6:00

MATH 32A Calculus of Several Variables Lecture 3 or 5, Dr. Filipazzi MWF 12:00 12:50 or MWF 2:00 2:50 Disc: Tues or Thurs, 12 12:50 or 2 2:50 Same Final: Sunday, Dec 13, 8:00 11:00

CHEMISTRY 20A Chemical Structure Lect 1: MWF 9 or Lect 2: MWF 11 or Lect 3: MWF 1 (all 50-min) Same Professor for All 3 Lectures Choose Discussion under Same Lecture Lect 1 Final: Mon, Dec 14, 8:00 11:00 Lect 2 Final: Tues, Dec 15, 11:30 2:30 Lect 3 Final: Thur, Dec 17, 11:30 2:30

CS 31 (Intro Comp Sci I) Fall: CS, CSE, CompE, EE Majors Professor Smallberg (both lectures) MW 12 1:50 or MW 4 5:50 2-hour Friday Discussions. Make sure it doesn t conflict other classes. Same Final: Saturday, Dec 12, 6:30 9:30 See Course Notes, Mandatory Midterms

INTRO COURSES BioE 10 (2 units) Required for BioE Majors ChemE 10 (1 unit) Required for ChemE Majors Civil 1 (2 units, P/NP) Required for Civil Majors CS 1 (1 unit) Required for CS & CSE Majors. CompE Majors can choose CS 1 or EE 1 EE 1 (1 unit, P/NP) Not required for EE Majors MS 10 (1 unit) Required for Materials Majors MAE 1 (1 unit, P/NP) -- Required for AE s, not ME s

English Composition University Requirement (Eng Comp 3) AP Score 4 or 5 satisfies req t Best to complete English Comp 3 before taking any Non-Life Sci G.E. English Comp 3: Creese English Comp 3D: Mattenson English Comp 3E: Sussman

ENGR GENERAL ELECTIVES Besides English Comp 3 and Engineering Ethics, there are 5 Courses Required: Foundations of Arts and Humanities (Choose 2) - Literary and Cultural Analysis (LCA) - Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis (PLA), - Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice (VPA) Foundations of Society and Culture (Choose 2) - Historical Analysis - Social Analysis Foundations of Scientific Inquiry (1) (Already satisfied for BioE and ChemE Majors) (Civil Majors take specific Natural Science GE)

Suggested Fall 2020 HSSEAS Life Science GEs for Non BioE/ChemE ( * = Satisfies Natural Science Requirement for Civil Majors) ASTRO 5 EPSS 3 * GEOG 5 GEOG 7 LIFE SCI 15 LING 1 MCD BIO 50 Stem Cell Biology, Politics, and Ethics (Lee) (also SA) NEURO 10 * Brain Made Simple: Neurosci for 21stCentury (Babiec) PHY SCI 5 Issues in Human Physiology: Diet and Exercise (Esdin) PSYCTY 79 Skills for Improving Productivity and Well-Being (Korb) STATS 10 Intro to Statistical Reasoning (Cha) STATS 12 Statistical Reasoning for Life & Heath Sci (Zanontian) Life in the Universe (Treu) Astrobiology (Margot and Treude) People and Earth s Ecosystems (Cavanaugh) Geographic Information Systems (Burkhardt) (also SA) Life: Concepts and Issues (Phelan) Intro to the Study of Language (Silvestre) (also PLA)

Suggested Fall 2020 Non LifeSci General Electives (Part 1) AF AM 1 AF AM M5 AM IND M10 ANC NE 15 ART HIST 25 ASIAN 30 CLASSICS 20 CLASSICS 48 CESC 50XP DESMA 10 ENGLISH 100 ETHNO M50A Intro to Black Studies (Pierre) (HA, LCA, SA) Same as SOC M5. Social Org of Black Communities (Lacayo) (HA, SA) Same as WORLD ARTS M23. Intro to American Indian Studies (SA) Women and Power in the Ancient World (Cooney) (HA) Museum Studies (Mathur) (LCA, SA) Languages and Cultures of Asia (Iwasaki) (PLA) Discovering the Romans (Vazquez) (HA, LCA) Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine (Blank) (HA, LCA) Community Engagement & Social Exchange: Engaging LA (Staub) (SA) Design and Culture (Huhtamo) (VPA) Ways of Reading Race (Perez-Torres) (LCA, SA) Same as GLOBAL JAZZ M50. Jazz in American Culture, 19thCentury - 1940 (de Castro) (VPA) History of American Motion Picture (6 units) (VPA) French Cinema and Culture (Brozgal) (LCA, VPA) Globalization: Regional Development &World Economy (Rigby) (HA) Geographic Information Systems (Burkhardt) (also SA) Holocaust in Film and Literature (Presner) (LCA, PLA) Intro to Globalization (Potts) (SA) FILM & TV 6A FRENCH 41 GEOG 4 GEOG 7 GERMAN 59 GLOBAL ST 1

Suggested Fall 2020 Non LifeSci General Electives (Part 2) HISTORY 8A HISTORY 10B HISTORY 12B JAPAN 50 LABOR ST 10 LING 1 MCD BIO 50 MCD BIO 60 MUSICOL 5 MUSICOL 69 PUB AFF 10 REL M10 REL M20 SOC 1 SCAND 40 THEATER 10 Colonial Latin America (Terraciano) (HA, LCA) History of Africa, 1800 Present (Worger) (HA) Inequality: History of Neoliberalism (Kelley) (HA, SA) Japanese Civilization (Duthie) (LCA) Intro to Labor &Workplace Studies (Valenzuela, Wong) (HA, SA) Intro to the Study of Language (Silvestre) (PLA, also LS) Stem Cell Biology, Politics, and Ethics (Lee) (SA, also LS) Biomedical Ethics (Gallagher) (PLA) History of Rock and Roll (VPA) Music and Politics (Redmond) (SA, VPA) Comparative Analysis of Wealth, Policy, Power (Christensen) (SA) Same as Jewish Studies M10. Intro Judaism (Bonesho) (LCA) Same as Islamic Studies M20. Intro Islam (Sayeed) (HA, PLA) Intro to Sociology (Collett) (SA) Heroic Journey in Northern Myth, Legend, and Epic (Ball) (LCA) Intro to Theater (Gorshein) (LCA, VPA)

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