MAT SCI 201 · MSE 201Principles of Materials Science II
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Kinetics of diffusional transformations in solids. Precipitation in solids. Nucleation theory. Theory of precipitate growth. Ostwald ripening. Spinodal decomposition. Cellular reactions.
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
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 131.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 201
- MAT SCI 131Diffusion and Diffusion-Controlled Reactions
- MAT SCI 130Phase Relations in Solids
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 12 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.