C&EE 120 · CEE 120Principles of Soil Mechanics
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Soil as foundation for structures and as material of construction. Soil formation, classification, physical and mechanical properties, soil compaction, earth pressures, consolidation, and shear strength.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
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: course 108.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 120
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
- C&EE 91Statics
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
1 direct requisite. Showing 16 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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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
C&EE 120
- C&EE 120LSoil Mechanics Laboratory
- C&EE 121Design of Foundations and Earth Structures
- C&EE C128Geohazards and Infrastructure Resilience
- C&EE C182Rigid and Flexible Pavements: Design, Materials, and Serviceability
- C&EE 220Advanced Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 222Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 226Geoenvironmental Engineering
- C&EE C228Geohazards and Infrastructure Resilience
8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 22 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.