How to describe courses with non-descriptive names?

<p>And where should I describe them (when applying to graduate school)?</p>

<p>So basically, I took a graduate level course called “objective analysis” in the atmospheric sciences department. Its content primarily consists of principal component analysis and spectral analysis - both things that are extremely fundamental to a lot of fields. But of course, the “objective analysis” title doesn’t describe the course’s content to any department - outside of atmospheric sciences. So how and where should I describe what I learned? (on say, an application to grad school)</p>

<p>(this should also apply to “mathematical methods” courses too). </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>The course description says this:</p>

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<p>But most people won’t take the time and effort to look up the course description. So where should I put it?</p>