C&EE 245 · CEE 245Earthquake Ground Motion Characterization
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Earthquake fundamentals, including plate tectonics, fault types, seismic waves, and magnitude scales. Characterization of earthquake source, including magnitude range and rate of future earthquakes. Ground motion prediction equations and site effects on ground motion. Seismic hazard analysis. Ground motion selection and modification for response history analysis.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 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
Corequisite: course C137 or 246.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 245
- C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions
1 direct requisite. Showing 7 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 245
- C&EE 225Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.