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PHYSICS 291 · PHYS 291Research Tutorial: Elementary Particle Theory

Physics · 2 or 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Required of each graduate student doing research in this field, ordinarily during second or third year. Seminar and discussion by staff, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. May be repeated for credit.

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Requisites: courses 226A, 230A, 230B.

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  • PHYSICS 226A
  • PHYSICS 230A
  • PHYSICS 230B

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PHYSICS 291

  • PHYSICS 226AElementary Particle Physics
    • PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
    • PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
      • PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanicsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanicsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 230AQuantum Field Theoryanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 230BQuantum Field Theoryanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 230AQuantum Field Theory
    • PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics
      • PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanicsanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanicsanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 230BQuantum Field Theory
    • PHYSICS 230AQuantum Field Theoryanother path to it

3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 13 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

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