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C&EE 220 · CEE 220Advanced Soil Mechanics

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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State of stress. Consolidation and settlement analysis. Shear strength of granular and cohesive soils. In situ and laboratory methods for soil property evaluation.

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 120.

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C&EE 120

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 220

  • C&EE 120Principles of Soil Mechanics
    • C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
      • C&EE 91Statics2 more beneath
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
      • MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials2 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics3 more beneath

1 direct requisite. Showing 6 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE 220

  • C&EE 221Advanced Foundation Engineering
  • C&EE 222Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
  • C&EE 223Advanced Geotechnical Design
  • C&EE 225Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
  • C&EE 227Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.