A&O SCI 121Climate Mitigation Solutions
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Critical survey of potential strategies to address climate change, including solutions in infrastructure, transportation, energy, waste, and agricultural sectors, as well as geoengineering. Exploration of roles of communication, equity, religion, social change, and education in mitigating climate change.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: one course from course 1, 2, 3, 51, M100, 102, or 112.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
A&O SCI 121
- A&O SCI 1Climate Change: From Puzzles to Policy
- A&O SCI 2Air Pollution
- A&O SCI 3Meteorology and Extreme Weather
- A&O SCI 51Fundamentals of Climate Science
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
- A&O SCI M100Earth and Its Environment
- A&O SCI 102Climate Change and Climate Modeling
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- A&O SCI 101Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
- ENVIRON 175Programming with Big Environmental Datasets
- STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studies
- LIFESCI 40Statistics of Biological Systems
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
- A&O SCI 103Physical Oceanography
- A&O SCI 104Fundamentals of Air and Water Pollution
- A&O SCI M106Applied Climatology: Principles of Climate Impact on Natural Environment
7 direct requisites. Showing 51 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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