CLT HTG 263Structure, Properties, and Deterioration of Materials: Metals
Conservation of Cultural Heritage · 2 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
General introduction to different types of ancient and ethnographic metals. Relationship between composition (chemistry), structure (crystals, molecular arrangement, and microstructure), and properties of metals explained using basic concepts from physics and chemistry. Chemical, optical, and structural properties. Deterioration phenomena, defects, and products of alteration of metallic artifacts. Hands-on examination of variety of samples and artifacts.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CLT HTG 263
- CLT HTG 234Conservation Laboratory: Metals I
- CLT HTG 239Conservation Laboratory: Metals II
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.