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EC ENGR 132A · EE 132AIntroduction to Communication Systems

Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Review of basic probability, basics of hypothesis testing, sufficient statistics and waveform communication, signal-design tradeoffs for digital communications, basics of error control coding, intersymbol interference channels and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), basics of wireless communications.

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Enforced requisites: courses 102, 113, 131A.

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  • EC ENGR 102
  • EC ENGR 113
  • EC ENGR 131A

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EC ENGR 132A

  • EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
      • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 33BDifferential Equations
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
  • EC ENGR 113Digital Signal Processing
    • EC ENGR 102Systems and Signalsanother path to it
  • EC ENGR 131AProbability and Statistics
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series1 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
    • MATH 33BDifferential Equationsanother path to it

3 direct requisites. Showing 14 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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EC ENGR 132A

  • EC ENGR 230BDigital Communication Systems

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.