C&EE 225 · CEE 225Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Analysis of earthquake-induced ground failure, including soil liquefaction, cyclic softening of clays, seismic compression, surface fault rupture, and seismic slope stability. Ground response effects on earthquake ground motions. Soil-structure interaction, including inertial and kinematic interaction and foundation deformations under seismic loading.
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
Requisites: courses 220, 245 (may be taken concurrently).
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 225
- C&EE 220Advanced Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 120Principles of Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 245Earthquake Ground Motion Characterization
- C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions
2 direct requisites. Showing 8 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.