EE BIOL 243Animal Communication
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Physical properties of animal signals and physiological mechanisms underlying their generation and reception. Lectures treat signal analysis, signal transmission, and receptor design in light of constraints placed on each sensory modality. Examples of communication systems using visual, auditory, chemical, electrical, and magnetic cues, with emphasis on biological adaptations for efficiently signaling species-specific information.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Mathematics 3C or 32A, and Physics 1C and 4BL, or 6C or 6CH.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.55 · from text- · "PHYSICS 6C" is not in this catalog version
- · "PHYSICS 6CH" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "Mathematics 3C or 32A, and Physics 1C and 4BL, or 6C or 6CH" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 243
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 4BLPhysics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativityanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 40 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.