Book Adoptions for FA 2015-16

Prepared Friday, August 28, 2015

This document lists the required and optional textbooks for Caltech courses offered during the FA
2015-16 term. Not all courses are listed. Only those courses for which the Registrar has solid
information are listed.
This document is updated as more information comes in from instructors.
Please consult the Library Catalog (CLAS) to view class course reserves. Course reserves are
available in the Sherman Fairchild Library only. Reserve material is available for 3-hour checkout.

Changes in the last 7 days

BMB/Ch 178
Hum/En 005
L 102A
PS 121

AEROSPACE
ANTHROPOLOGY
APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL MATH
ACM101A. Methods of Applied Mathematics I.
Instructor: Oscar Bruno

Required textbooks:
Ablowitz, Mark J. and Fokas, Athanassios S.; Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications (Second
Edition), , . ISBN: 978-0521534291
Bender, Carl M. and Orszag, Steven A.; Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers:
Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory, Springer Verlag, . ISBN: 978-0387989310

Suggested textbooks:
Carrier, George F., Krook, Max, and Pearson, Carl E.; Functions of a Complex Variable: Theory and Technique
(Classics in Applied Mathematics), SIAM, . ISBN: 978-0898715958

APPLIED MECHANICS
APPLIED PHYSICS
ART HISTORY
Art169. The Arts of Dynastic China.
Instructor: Juliann Wolfgram

Required textbooks:
Sullivan, Michael; Arts of China (5e revised/expanded), UC, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-520-25569-2
Silbergeld, Jerome; Chinese Painting Style, Washington, . ISBN: 9780295959214

Suggested textbooks:
Barnhart, Richard et al.; Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, YUP, 2002. ISBN: 9780300094473
Ebrey, Patricia; The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (2), Cambridge, 2010. ISBN: 9780521124331
Barnet, Sylvan; A Short Guide to Writing About Art (11), Pearson, . ISBN: 9780205886999

ASTROPHYSICS
Ay 020. Basic Astronomy and the Galaxy.
Instructor: Lynne Hillenbrand

Required textbooks:
B.W. Caroll,D.A. Ostlie; An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics ((2nd or newer), ), Pearson / Addison Wesley,
2007. ISBN: 0-8053-0402-9

Ay 101. Physics of Stars.

Instructor: Judith Cohen

Suggested textbooks:
LeBlanc, Francis; An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics (2010), , . ISBN: 978-0-470-69956-0

Ay 121. Radiative Processes.

Instructors: Gregg Hallinan, Evan Kirby

Required textbooks:
Rybicki, George,Lightman, Alan; Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, , . ISBN: 978-0-471-82759-7

BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS

BIOENGINEERING
BE/Bi 103. Data Analysis in the Biological Sciences.
Instructor: Justin Bois

Required textbooks:
Sivia, D. S.; Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial (2nd), Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0198568320

BIOLOGY
Bi/Ch 110. Introduction to Biochemistry.
Instructor:

Required textbooks:
Berg, Tymoczko, Gatto Stryer; Biochemistry (8th), Freeman MacMillan, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4641-2610-9

Suggested textbooks:
Fertuck, K.,Rhodes, C.,Josephy, D.,Koeppe II, Roger; Student Companion to accompany Biochemistry (8th),
W.H. Freeman and Company, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4641-8803-9

BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, AND MANAGEMENT

BEM103. Introduction to Finance.
Instructor: Richard Roll

Required textbooks:
Ross, Stephen, Westerfield, Randolph, Jaffe, Jeffrey; Corporate Finance (10), McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2013. ISBN:
978-0-07-803477-0

BEM105. Options.
Instructor: Jaksa Cvitanic

Required textbooks:
Cvitanic, Jaksa,Zapatero, Fernando; Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets (1),
MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262033208

Suggested textbooks:
Shreve, Steven; Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models (1), Springer Finance, 2004.
ISBN: 0387401016

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
ChE/Ch 165. Chemical Thermodynamics.
Instructor: Zhen-Gang Wang

Required textbooks:
sandler, stanley; chemical, biochemical engineering thermodynamics (latest), wiley, 2006. ISBN:
978-0471661740

ChE103A. Transport Phenomena.

Instructor: Julia Kornfield

Required textbooks:
Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot; Transport Phenomena Revised 2nd Ed, , . ISBN: 0470115394

CHEMISTRY
Ch 001A. General Chemistry.
Instructor: Nathan Lewis

Required textbooks:
Oxtoby, D. W., Gillis, H. P., Campion, A.; Principles of Modern Chemistry (8th Edition), Thomson Brooks/Cole
Publishing, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-305-07911-3
Gray, H. B.; Chemical Bonds: An Introduction to Atomic and Molecular Structure, University Science Books,
1994. ISBN: 0935702350

Ch 021A. Physical Chemistry.

Instructor: Mitchio Okumura

Required textbooks:
McQuarrie, Donald; Quantum Chemistry, , . ISBN: 1891389505

Ch 041A. Organic Chemistry.

Instructor: Dennis Dougherty

Required textbooks:
Loudon, Marc,Parise, Jim; Organic Chemistry, , . ISBN: 978-1-936221-34-9

Ch 112. Inorganic Chemistry.

Instructor: Theodor Agapie

Suggested textbooks:
Miessler, Gary L.; Fischer, Paul J.; Tarr, Donald A.; Inorganic Chemistry (5th), Prentice Hall, 2013. ISBN:
9780321811059
Harris, Daniel C.; Bertolucci, Michael D.; Symmetry and Spectroscopy, Dover, 1978. ISBN: 0-486-66144-x

COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

CMS/ACM 104. Linear Algebra and Applied Operator Theory.
Instructor: Joel Tropp

Required textbooks:
Axler, Sheldon; Linear Algebra Done Right (3rd), Springer, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-319-11079-0

CONTROL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

CDS101. Design and Analysis of Feedback Systems.
Instructor: Richard Murray

Required textbooks:
Astrom, Karl,Murray, Richard; Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (1), Princeton
University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780691135762

CDS110. Introduction to Feedback Control Systems.

Instructor: Richard Murray

Required textbooks:
Astrom, Karl,Murray, Richard; Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (1), Princeton
University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780691135762

ECONOMICS
Ec 011. Introduction to Economics.
Instructor: Charles Plott

Required textbooks:
Taylor, John B.,Weerapana, Akila; Principles of Economics (7th), Cengage Learning, . ISBN:
978-0-538-45359-2

Ec 122. Econometrics.
Instructor: Robert Sherman

Required textbooks:
hill, r. carter,griffiths, william e.,lim, guay c.; principles of econometrics (4th), wiley, 2011. ISBN:
978-0-470-62673-3

Ec 145. Public Finance.

Instructor: John Ledyard

Required textbooks:
Salanie, Bernard; The Economics of Taxation (2nd), MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-262-01634-6

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
EE 111. Signal-Processing Systems and Transforms.
Instructor: Palghat Vaidyanathan

Required textbooks:
Alan V. Oppenheim,Alan S. Willsky; Signals and Systems (2nd), Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 978-0138147570

EE/Ma/CS 126A. Information Theory.

Instructor: Michelle Effros

Required textbooks:
Cover, T.M.,Thomas, J.A.; Elements of Information Theory (2nd), Wiley, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-471-24195-9

ENGINEERING
E 110. Principles of University Teaching and Learning in STEM.
Instructor: Cassandra Horii

Suggested textbooks:
Ambrose, Susan,Bridges, Michael,DiPietro, Michele,Lovett, Marsha,Norman, Marie,; How Learning Works: 7
Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Any), Jossey-Bass, 2010. ISBN: 978-0470484104
Kober, Nancy; Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science
and Engineering, National Academies Press, 2015. ISBN: 0-309-30043-6

ENGLISH
En 103. Introduction to Medieval British Literature.
Instructor: Jennifer Jahner

Required textbooks:

Leyser, Henrietta,Fanous, Samuel; The Life of Christina of Markyate, Oxford World Classics, 2010. ISBN:
978-0199556052
Staley, Lynn; Book of Margery Kempe, Norton, 2000. ISBN: 978-0-393-97639-7
Robertson, Elizabeth,Shepherd, Stephen H. A.; Piers Plowman, Norton, 2006. ISBN: 978-0393975598

En 105. Old English Literature.

Instructor: Benjamin Saltzman

Required textbooks:
Baker, Peter; Introduction to Old English (3rd), Wiley-Blackwell, . ISBN: 978-0470659847

Suggested textbooks:
Barney, Stephen; Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary, , . ISBN: 978-0300035063
Delanty, Greg and Matto, Michael; The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, , . ISBN:
978-0393342413
Clark-Hall, J. R.; A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, , . ISBN: 978-1617201875

En 121. Literature and Its Readers.

Instructor: Kristine Haugen

Required textbooks:
Homer; The Iliad, tr. Rieu Jones, rev. ed. (rev. ed.), Penguin, 2003. ISBN: 978-0140447941
Goethe, J. W. von; The Sorrows of Young Werther, tr. Michael Hulse , Penguin Classics, 1989. ISBN:
978-0140445039
Macpherson, James; Fingal, an ancient epic poem, in six books: together with several other poems, composed
by Ossian the son of Fingal , Gale, 2010. ISBN: 978-1170043462
Palahniuk, Chuck; Fight Club: A Novel (reprint edn.), Norton, 2005. ISBN: 978-0393327342

En 183. Victorian Crime Fiction.

Instructor: Dehn Gilmore

Required textbooks:
dickens, charles; oliver twist, , . ISBN: 978-0141439747
collins, wilkie; moonstone, , . ISBN: 978-0199536726
braddon, mary elizabeth; lady audley's secret, , . ISBN: 978-0199577033
stevenson, robert louis; dr jekyll and mr hyde, , . ISBN: 978-0199536221
conan doyle, arthur; memoirs and adventures of sherlock holmes, , . ISBN: 978-0140437713

chesterton, g.k; complete father brown stories, , . ISBN: 978-1853260032

mayhew, henry; london labour and the london poor, , . ISBN: 978-0199697571
collins, wilkie; law and the lady, , . ISBN: 978-0140436075

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ENGINEERING

ESE101. Earth's Atmosphere.
Instructor: Andrew Ingersoll

Required textbooks:
Hartmann, Dennis; Global Physical Climatology (First), Academic Press, 1994. ISBN: 978-0-12-328530-0

ESE102. Earth's Oceans.

Instructor: Jess Adkins

Required textbooks:
Williams, R.G. and Follows, M.J. ; Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle (1), Cambridge U. Press, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-521-84369-0

ESE130. Atmosphere Dynamics.

Instructor: Simona Bordoni

Required textbooks:
Vallis, Geoffrey K; Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics: fundamentals and large-scale circulation ,
Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0521849692

FRESHMAN SEMINARS
FS/Bi 013. Freshman Seminar: In Search of Memory.
Instructor: Jerome Pine

Required textbooks:
kandel, eric; in search of memory, norton, 2006. ISBN: 978-0--393-32937-7

FS/Ge 016. Freshman Seminar: Earthquakes.

Instructor: Joann Stock

Required textbooks:
Musson, Roger; The million death quake : the science of predicting Earth's deadliest natural disaster (1),
Palgrave McMillan, 2012. ISBN: 9780230119413
Oppenheimer, Clive; Eruptions that Shook the World, Cambridge Universitiy Press, 2011. ISBN:
9780521641128

FS/Ph 009. Freshman Seminar: The Science of Music.

Instructor: Hugh Politzer

Required textbooks:
Levitin, Daniel; This Is Your Brain on Music ((paper)), Plume/Penguin, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-452-28852-2

GEOLOGY
Ge 114A. Mineralogy.
Instructor: George Rossman

Suggested textbooks:
Cornelis Klein Barbara Dutrow; The Manual of Mineral Science (23), John WIley Sons, 2008. ISBN:
978-0471-72157-4

Ge 114B. Mineralogy Laboratory.

Instructor: George Rossman

Suggested textbooks:
William D. Nesse; Introduction to Optical Mineralogy (4th), Oxford, 2013. ISBN: 0199846278

Ge 161. Plate Tectonics.

Instructor: Joann Stock

Suggested textbooks:
C M R Fowler; The Solid Earth: An introduction to global geophysics (second edition), Cambridge University
press, 2005. ISBN: 0 521 89307 0

Allan Cox and B. R. Hart; Plate Tectonics: How it works, Wiley-Blackwell, 1986. ISBN: 978-0-86542-313-8

Ge 212. Thermodynamics of Geological Systems.

Instructor: Paul Asimow

Required textbooks:
Anderson, Greg M.; Thermodynamics of Natural Systems (2nd), Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN:
9780521612555

HISTORY
H/HPS 185. Angels and Monsters: Cosmology, Anthropology, and the Ends of
the World.
Instructor: Nicolas Wey-Gomez

Required textbooks:
Hesiod; Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences, University of California
Press, 1997. ISBN: 978-0520203846
Plato; Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato (ed. Francis Cornford), , 1997. ISBN: 978-0872203860
Mandeville, John; The Book of John Mandeville, with Related Texts (Ed. Ian Mcleod Higgins), Hackett
Publishing Company, 2011. ISBN: 978-0872209350

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

HPS/Pl 123. Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics.
Instructor: Charles Sebens

Required textbooks:
Lange, Marc; An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (1st edition),
Wiley-Blackwell, July. ISBN: 0631225013

HUMANITIES
Hum/En 005 (Section 1). Major British Authors.
Instructor: George Pigman

Required textbooks:

Margaret Ferguson; The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th), Norton, 2004. ISBN: 978-0-393-97920-6

Hum/En 005 (Section 2). Major British Authors.

Instructor: Benjamin Saltzman

Required textbooks:
Boethius, Ancius; The Consolation of Philosophy (1st edition), Harvard University Press, May . ISBN:
0674048350
Milton,John (Author),Teskey, Gordon (Editor); Paradise Lost ( 3rd revised edition), W. W. Norton Company,
Dece. ISBN: 0393924289
Braunmuller, A. R. (Editor); The Winter's Tale (The Pelican Shakespeare), Penguin Classics , Sept. ISBN:
014071488X
Strunk Jr.,William,White,E. B.; The Elements of Style ( Fourth Edition ), Longman, Aug . ISBN:
978-0205309023
Fish, Stanley,; How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Reprint edition), Harper Paperbacks, Aug .
ISBN: 978-0061840531
Orwell, George; Animal Farm, , . ISBN: 0451526341

Hum/En 005 (Section 3). Major British Authors.

Instructor: Jennifer Jahner

Required textbooks:
Greenblatt, Stephen, et al; The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume A, 9th Edition (9th), Norton,
2012. ISBN: 978-0393912494
Greenblatt, Stephen, et al; Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B, 9th Edition (9th), Norton, 2012.
ISBN: 978-0393912500
Harvey, Michael; Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, Hackett, 2013. ISBN: 978-1603848985

Hum/En 005 (Section 4). Major British Authors.

Instructor: Dehn Gilmore

Required textbooks:
marlowe, christopher; doctor faustus, , . ISBN: 0199537062
bacon, francis; three modern utopias, , . ISBN: 9780199537990
swift, jonathan; gulliver's travels, , . ISBN: 9780199536849
shelley, mary; frankenstein, , . ISBN: 9780199537150
stevenson, robert louis; Dr jekyll and mr hyde, , . ISBN: 9780199536221

conan doyle, arthur; hound of the baskervilles, , . ISBN: 1551117223

stoppard, tom; arcadia, , . ISBN: 0571169341
mcewan, ian; enduring love, , . ISBN: 9780385494144
harvey, michael; The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing , , . ISBN: 1603848983

Hum/H 002 (Section 1). American History.

Instructor: J. Kousser

Required textbooks:
Chafe, William H.; The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II (8th), Oxford University Press, 2014.
ISBN: 978-0199347995
Williams, Joseph M. -,Bizup, Joseph; Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (11th), Longman, 2013. ISBN:
978-0321898685

Hum/H 002 (Section 2). American History.

Instructor: J. Kousser

Required textbooks:
Chafe, William H.; The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II (8th), Oxford University Press, 2014.
ISBN: 978-0199347995
Williams, Joseph M. -,Bizup, Joseph; Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (11th), Longman, 2013. ISBN:
978-0321898685

Hum/H 003B. European Civilization: Early Modern Europe.

Instructor: Nicolas Wey-Gomez

Required textbooks:
Nuez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar; Castaways, University of California Press, 1993. ISBN: 978-0520070639
Yupanqui, Titu Cusi; History of how the Spaniards arrived in Peru (Dual-Language Edition), Hackett Publishing
Company, 2006. ISBN: 978-0872208285
Erauso, Catalina de; Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, Beacon Press, 1996.
ISBN: 978-0807070734

LANGUAGES
L 102A. Elementary French.

Instructor: Christiane Orcel

Required textbooks:
Jansma, Kimberly and Kassen, Margaret Ann; Motifs: An Introduction To French (6th edition), Thomson Heinle,
2014. ISBN: 978-1-133-937456
Jansma, Kimberly and Kassen, Margaret Ann; Student Activities Manual: Motifs: An Introduction To French
(6th edition), Thomson Heinle, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-133-61180-6

L 103A. Intermediate French.

Instructor: Trevor Merrill

Required textbooks:
Renaud, Simone -,van Hooff, Dominique; En bonne forme (8th), Wiley, . ISBN: 978-0-470-42421-6
Renaud, Simone; En bonne forme, Student Activities Manual (SAM) (8th), Wiley, . ISBN: 978-0-470-42869-6

L 106A. Elementary Japanese.

Instructor: Ritsuko Toner

Required textbooks:
Hirai, Ritsuko; First Year Japanese (5th), Pearson, 2014. ISBN: 1269936670

L 110A (Section 1). Elementary Spanish.

Instructor: Daniel Garcia

Required textbooks:
Debbie Rusch,Marcela Domnguez,Luca Caycedo Garner; Imgenes: An Introduction to Spanish Language
and Cultures (3rd), Cengage Learning, 2014. ISBN: 9781285927145

L 110A (Section 2). Elementary Spanish.

Instructor: Gloria Arjona

Required textbooks:
Rusch/Domnguez/Caycedo ; Imgenes: An Introduction to Spanish Language and Cultures ( 3r Edition),
Cengage Learning, . ISBN: 9781285927145

L 112A. Intermediate Spanish.

Instructor: Daniel Garcia

Required textbooks:
Samaniego, Fabian et al.; Mundo 21. Espanol para el siglo 21 4th + iLrn Heinle Learning Center Printed
Access Card 4th Edition (4th), Cengage / Heinle, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-111-70719-4

L 130A. Elementary German.

Instructor: Andreas Aebi

Required textbooks:
Daniuk Forester; Auf Geht's (3rd), Live Oak Media, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-886553-51-4

L 132A. Intermediate German.

Instructor: Andreas Aebi

Required textbooks:
Daniuk Forester; Weiter Geht's (3.3), Live Oak Media, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-886553-45-3

L 170A. Introduction to Chinese.

Instructor: Xiangyun Wang

Required textbooks:
Liu, Yuehua, et al; Integrated Chinese Textbook, Level 1 Part, simplified character edition (3rd), Cheng Tsui, .
ISBN: 9780887276385
Liu, Yuehua, et al; Integrated Chinese Workbook, Level 1 Part 1, simplified characters (3rd), Cheng Tsui, .
ISBN: 9780887276408

L 172A. Intermediate Chinese.

Instructor: Xiangyun Wang

Required textbooks:

Liu, Yuehua, et al; Integrated Chinese Textbook, Level 2 Part 1 (3rd), Cheng Tsui, . ISBN: 9780887276798
Liu, Yuehua, et al; Integrated Chinese Workbook, Level 2 Part 1 (3rd), Cheng Tsui, . ISBN: 9780887276835

L/F 109. Introduction to French Cinema from Its Beginning to the Present.
Instructor: Christiane Orcel

Required textbooks:
Petrie, Dennis and Boggs, Joseph; The Art of Watching Films (8th edition), McGraw-Hill, 2011. ISBN:
978-0073386171

MATERIALS SCIENCE
MS 132. Diffraction and Structure.
Instructor: Brent Fultz

Required textbooks:
Brent Fultz and James Howe; Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials (4), Springer,
2013. ISBN: 978-3-642-29760-1

MATHEMATICS
Ma 001A. Calculus of One and Several Variables and Linear Algebra.
Instructor: Nets Katz

Required textbooks:
Apostol, Tom; Calculus, Vol. 1, , . ISBN: 0471000051

Ma 001A (Section 1). Calculus of One and Several Variables and Linear
Algebra.
Instructor: Majid Hadian-Jazi

Required textbooks:
Apostol, Tom; Calculus, Vol. 1, , . ISBN: 0471000051

Ma 002 (Practical). Differential Equations.

Instructor: Gang Zhou

Required textbooks:
Boyce, DiPrima; Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems (9), Wiley, 2009. ISBN:
0470383348

Ma 002 (Analytical). Differential Equations.

Instructor: Nikolai Makarov

Required textbooks:
Robinson, James; An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, , . ISBN: 0521533910

Ma 005A. Introduction to Abstract Algebra.

Instructor: Pei-Yu Tsai

Required textbooks:
Dummtt and Foote; Abstract Algebra, , . ISBN: 0471433349

Ma 105A. Introduction to Abstract Algebra.

Instructor: Pei-Yu Tsai

Required textbooks:
Dummtt and Foote; Abstract Algebra, , . ISBN: 0471433349

Ma 108A. Classical Analysis.

Instructor: Rupert Frank

Required textbooks:
Rudin, Walter; Principles of Mathematical Analysis , , . ISBN: 007054235X

Ma 109A. Introduction to Geometry and Topology.

Instructor: Faramarz Vafaee

Required textbooks:
Munkres, James; Topology, , . ISBN: 0131816292
Hatcher, Allen; Algebraic Topology, , . ISBN: 0521795400

Ma 110A. Analysis.
Instructor: Elwadura Prabath Silva

Required textbooks:
Rudin, Walter; Real and Complex Analysis, , . ISBN: 0070542341

Ma 116A. Mathematical Logic and Axiomatic Set Theory.

Instructor: Alexander Kechris

Required textbooks:
Marker, David; Model Theory: An Introduction, , . ISBN: 9781441931573

Ma 120A. Abstract Algebra.

Instructor: Pablo Solis

Required textbooks:
Atiyah, Michael; Introduction To Commutative Algebra, Westview Press, . ISBN: 978-0201407518

Ma 121A. Combinatorial Analysis.

Instructor: Christopher Ormerod

Required textbooks:
Wilson, Richard; A Course in Combinatorics, , . ISBN: 0521006015

Ma 130A. Algebraic Geometry.

Instructor: Pablo Solis

Required textbooks:
Robin Hartshorne; Algebraic Geometry, , . ISBN: 0387902449

Ma 145A. Representation Theory.

Instructor: Eric Rains

Required textbooks:
Serre, Jean Pierre; Linear Representations of Finite Groups, , . ISBN: 1468494600

Ma 151A. Algebraic and Differential Topology.

Instructor: Faramarz Vafaee

Required textbooks:
Hatcher, Allen; Algebraic Topology, , . ISBN: 0521795400

Ma 160A. Number Theory.

Instructor: Matthias Flach

Required textbooks:
Marcus, Daniel; Number Fields, Springer Universitext, 1977. ISBN: 0-387-90279-1

Ma/ACM 144A. Probability.

Instructor: Nikolai Makarov

Required textbooks:
Geoffrey R. Grimmett,David R. Stirzaker; Probability and Random Processes, , . ISBN: 0198572220

Ma/CS 006A. Introduction to Discrete Mathematics.

Instructor: Adam Sheffer

Required textbooks:
Biggs, Norman; Discrete Mathematics, , . ISBN: 9780198507178

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ME 011A. Thermal Science.
Instructor: Melany Hunt

Suggested textbooks:
Borgnakke, Claus,Sonntag, Richard; Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (8th), Wiley, 2012. ISBN:
978-1-118-13199-2

MUSIC
Mu 021. Understanding Music.
Instructor: Thomas Neenan

Required textbooks:
Kelly, Thomas; Music Then And Now, WW Norton, . ISBN: 978-0393929881

Mu 027. Fundamentals of Music Theory and Elementary Ear Training.

Instructor: Thomas Neenan

Required textbooks:
Turek, Ralph; The Elements of Music: Concepts and Applications, McGraw - Hill, . ISBN: 978-0070654747

PHILOSOPHY
Pl 100. Free Will.
Instructor: Christopher Hitchcock

Required textbooks:
Pereboom, Derk; Free Will (2nd), Hackett, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-60384-129-0
Mele, Alfred; Effective Intentions, Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-19-976468-6
Mele, Alfred; Free, Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-19-937162-4

PHYSICS

Ph 001A. Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism.

Instructor: Ryan Patterson

Required textbooks:
Steven C. Frautschi et al; The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition (1st paperback),
Cambridge UP, 2007. ISBN: 0521715903

Ph 002A. Waves, Quantum Mechanics, and Statistical Physics.

Instructors: Christopher Martin, Hugh Politzer

Required textbooks:
A. P. French; Vibration and Waves (1st), W. W. Norton Co., 1971. ISBN: 0393099369

Ph 106A. Topics in Classical Physics.

Instructor: Sunil Golwala

Suggested textbooks:
Louis N. Hand and Janet D. Finch; Analytical Mechanics, , . ISBN: 0521575729
Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, and John L. Safko; Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition), , . ISBN:
0201657023

Ph 125A. Quantum Mechanics.

Instructor: Mark Wise

Required textbooks:
Shankar, Ramamurti; Principles of Quantum Mechanics, , . ISBN: 9781475705782

Ph 127A. Statistical Physics.

Instructor: Jason Alicea

Required textbooks:
Kardar, Mehran; Statistical Physics of Particles (1st), Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0521873428

Ph 230A. Elementary Particle Theory.

Instructor: Anton Kapustin

Required textbooks:
Schwartz, Matthew D.; Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model , , . ISBN: 978-1107034730

POLITICAL SCIENCE
PS 121. Analyzing Congress.
Instructor: Alexander Hirsch

Required textbooks:
Stewart, Charles; Analyzing Congress (2), W. W. Norton Company, 2011. ISBN: 978-0393935066

PSYCHOLOGY
Psy016. Understanding Psychological Disorders.
Instructor: Lynn Paul

Required textbooks:
Rosenberg, R.S.,Kosslyn, S.M.; Abnormal Psychology (2nd), Worth, 2014. ISBN: 9781429242165

Psy020. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology.

Instructor: Oana Tudusciuc

Required textbooks:
Goldstein, E. Bruce; Cognitive Psychology (4th), Cengage Learning, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-285-76388-O

SOCIAL SCIENCE
SS 202A. Political Theory.
Instructor: Alexander Hirsch

Required textbooks:
Austen-Smith, David,Banks, Jeffrey S.; Positive Political Theory I: Collective Preference, , . ISBN:
978-0472087211

SS 205A. Foundations of Economics.

Instructor: Kim Border

Required textbooks:
Mas-Colell, Andreu,Whinston, Michael D.,Green, Jerry R.; Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press,
1995. ISBN: 9780195073409

SS/Ma 214. Mathematical Finance.

Instructor: Jaksa Cvitanic

Required textbooks:
Steven E. Shreve; Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models, , . ISBN: 978-0387401010

Suggested textbooks:
Kerry Back; Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, , . ISBN: 978-0195380613
Bjork, Tomas; Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time, Oxford University Press, . ISBN: 019957474X