ART 279Open Area Studio
Art · 2 to 8 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to Art MFA students. Non-medium-specific course in which students work to establish, expand, and deepen their studio practices, including technical and research methods, to develop significant body of original artwork that reflects their concerns and furthers their artistic goals. May be repeated for credit.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 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.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
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.