DESMA 150Professional Practices
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of issues in the business side of design media arts careers—as a freelancer, full-time staffer, or one’s own studio practice. Topics include understanding common studio structures and roles, developing studio credentials, billing and booking practices, proposal and contract writing, pricing models, and copyright and other legal matters. Consideration also of shifting studio processes, interviewing tips, negotiating, and other workplace issues. Features occasional guest panelists.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- 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.