DESMA 104Design Futures
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Open to nonmajors with consent of instructor. Critical examination of design practice and theory of 20th and 21st centuries, incorporating historical as well as speculative methodologies. Consideration of how various design practices and techniques related to each other across cultures and media, with strong emphasis on communication design.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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Preparation: completion of preparation for major courses.
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DESMA 10412 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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