EPS SCI 51
Mineralogy: Earth and Planetary Materials
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Principles of mineralogy. Mineral structure and bonding and crystal chemistry, with focus on materials of interest for Earth and planetary sciences and major rock-forming minerals. Laboratory study of relationship between mineral structure and properties, including hand sample identification, microscopy (optical and electron), X-ray diffraction, and spectroscopy techniques.
P/NP or letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course 1, or any course from 3 through 17, 20, or Clusters 70A, and completion of chemistry requirement.
BruinTree reads · Recommended
needs reviewconfidence 0.15 · from text- EPS SCI 1
- all of
- any course from 3 through 17
- EPS SCI 20
- all of
- CLUSTER 70A
- completion of chemistry requirement
- · could not read "any course from 3 through 17" (no course number found)
- · could not read "completion of chemistry requirement" (no course number found)
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 1, or any course from 3 through 17, 20, or Clusters 70A, and completion of chemistry requirement" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPS SCI 51
- EPS SCI 1Introduction to Earth Science
- EPS SCI 20Natural History of Southern California
- CLUSTER 70AEvolution of Cosmos and Life
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EPS SCI 51
- EPS SCI 103AIgneous Petrology
- EPS SCI 103CMetamorphic Petrology
- EPS SCI 121Advanced Field Geology
- EPS SCI C126Advanced Petrology
- EPS SCI C226Advanced Petrology