(Formerly numbered 285.) Materials synthesis and physical properties of complex materials. Combines synthetic skills with fundamental physical understanding and characterization in approximately equal proportions to relate materials synthesis to materials function. Concurrently scheduled with course C185.
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 30AL, 110A, 113A, 171.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHEM C285
CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists Ianother path to it CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhancedanother path to it MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
CHEM 20BHChemical Energetics and Change (Honors) CHEM 20AChemical Structureanother path to it MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists Ianother path to it CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists IIanother path to it
CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Changeanother path to it
CHEM 110APhysical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics5 more beneath CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientistsanother path to it MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Studentsanother path to it
MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II1 more beneath CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists Ianother path to it CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhancedanother path to it
CHEM 14BEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II—Enhanced1 more beneath CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists Ianother path to it CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhancedanother path to it
PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
CHEM 113APhysical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics5 more beneath CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Changeanother path to it MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath
PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors) MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Studentsanother path to it MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors) MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
CHEM 171Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivityanother path to it
4 direct requisites. Showing 60 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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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.