C&EE C258 · CEE C258Coastal Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Covers coastal water levels (tides, climate variability, storms, sea level rise, resonance), surface gravity waves (characteristics, transformation, spectra), coastal processes (overtopping, erosion, flooding), coastal protection (walls, nourishment, dunes, berms, nature-based infrastructure), coastal modeling. Concurrently scheduled with course C158.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 107 or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 103, 151.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE C258
- C&EE 107Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- C&EE 151Introduction to Water Resources Engineering
- C&EE 150Introduction to Hydrology
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
3 direct requisites. Showing 24 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.