EPS SCI 136AApplied Geophysics
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: course M171. Methods and knowledge involved in investigation of near-surface geophysics. Covers gravity fields, wave equations, seismic ray theory, reflection and refraction, seismic interpretation, basic earthquake source theory, and introduction to magnetic fields and electrical resistivity.
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
Requisites: course M71 or Civil and Environmental Engineering M20; Mathematics 3A, 3B, and 3C, or 31A, 31B, and 32A; Physics 1A, 1B, 4AL, and 4BL, or 5A and 5B.
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EPS SCI 136A
- EPS SCI M71Introduction to Computing for Geoscientists
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- PHYSICS 4ALPhysics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- PHYSICS 4BLPhysics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)1 more beneath
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Studentsanother path to it
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
14 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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EPS SCI 136A
- EPS SCI 136BApplied Geophysics
- EPS SCI 136CField Geophysics
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.