DESMA 101Media Arts: Introduction
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to and required of Design | Media Arts majors. Survey of media arts, their history, aesthetics, and cultural roles from late-19th century to present. Investigation of media arts within broad historical and cultural framework. Discussion of parallels and links with other cultural forms, including history of technology and various art and design practices.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 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.
DESMA 10112 more beyond
- DESMA 110Tangible Media
- DESMA 112Performing User
- DESMA 113Generative Art
- DESMA 114Arts Research and Practice
- DESMA 115Art and Science Collaboration
- DESMA 116Sonic Media
- DESMA 125Game Design
- DESMA 126Game Engine
- DESMA 127Interactive Animation
- DESMA 128Worldbuilding
- DESMA 129Collaborative Game Lab
- DESMA 130Experiments in Virtuality
- DESMA 131Three-Dimensional Modeling and Motion
- DESMA 140Word + Image
- DESMA 111Art and the Internet
- DESMA 141Web Design and User Interface and Experience
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