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MAT SCI 200 · MSE 200Principles of Materials Science I

Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Lattice dynamics and thermal properties of solids, classical and quantized free electron theory, electrons in a periodic potential, transport in semiconductors, dielectric and magnetic properties of solids.

Letter grading.

When it runs

  • Fall 2025
  • Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

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Requisite: course 120.

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MAT SCI 120

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MAT SCI 200

  • MAT SCI 120Physics of Materials
    • MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics2 more beneath
      • CHEM 20AChemical Structure1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields1 more beneath
      • CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Changeanother path to it
      • CHEM 20LGeneral Chemistry Laboratory2 more beneath
    • MAT SCI 110Introduction to Materials Characterization A (Crystal Structure, Nanostructures, and X-Ray Scattering)
      • MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materialsanother path to it
    • CHEM 113APhysical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics5 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
      • CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change5 more beneath
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)2 more beneath
      • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications2 more beneath
      • 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)1 more beneath

1 direct requisite. Showing 18 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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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

MAT SCI 200

  • MAT SCI 226Si-CMOS Technology: Selected Topics in Materials Science
  • MAT SCI 271Electronic Structure of Materials
  • MAT SCI 272Theory of Nanomaterials

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.