EPS SCI 153Oceans and Atmospheres
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Physics of Earth’s oceans and atmosphere; biogeochemical cycles, atmospheric radiation and climate, energetics and dynamics of oceanic and atmospheric circulation systems.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
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: Life Sciences 30A and 30B, or Mathematics 31A, 31B, and 32A; and Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C, or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH, or 5A, 5B, and 5C.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPS SCI 153
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
14 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 55 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.