DESMA 10Design Culture

Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Understanding the design process, with emphasis on the development of visual language; study of historic, scientific, technological, economic, and cultural factors influencing design in physical environments.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

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.

DESMA 10

  • DESMA 159Capstone Senior Project in Design Media Arts

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