MAT SCI 213L · MSE 213LCultural Materials Science Laboratory: Technical Study
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Research-based laboratory through object-based problem-solving approach in conservation materials science. Experimental techniques, characterization, and analysis of archaeological and ethnographic materials (using materials science principles and reverse engineering processes) to determine technological features, defects, and products of alteration. Hands-on experience with noninvasive imaging and spectroscopic techniques, sampling and sample preparation methods, analysis of microsamples.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses M213 (or 216) and 214 or one course from Conservation 260 through 263. Corequisite: course C212.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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- Conservation 260 through 263
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BruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 213L
- MAT SCI C212Cultural Materials Science II: Characterization Methods in Conservation of Materials
- MAT SCI M213Cultural Materials Science I: Analytical Imaging and Documentation in Conservation of Materials
- MAT SCI 214Structure, Properties, and Deterioration of Materials: Rock Art, Wall Paintings, Mosaics
- MAT SCI 216Science of Conservation Materials and Methods I
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 4 courses over 1 level. 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.