CHEM 184Chemical Instrumentation
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Theory and practice of instrumental techniques of chemical and structural analysis, including atomic absorption spectroscopy, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, polarography, X-ray fluorescence, and other modern methods.
P/NP or 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
Enforced requisites: courses 30CL and 110A, with grades of C– or better.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHEM 184
- CHEM 30CLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory II
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- CHEM 14BEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II—Enhanced
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
2 direct requisites. Showing 37 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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