EE BIOL 109Introduction to Marine Science
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Strongly recommended for prospective Marine Biology Quarter students. Introduction to physical and biological world of 70 percent of planet: oceans. Designed to be integrative, with focus on geological evolution of seas, physical and chemical properties of water, and how these abiotic processes shape ecology and evolution of marine organisms and environments.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 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
Requisite: Life Sciences 7B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 109
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EE BIOL 109
- EE BIOL 109LIntroduction to Marine Science Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.