DESMA 159Capstone Senior Project in Design Media Arts
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Students should have completed six core, upper-division studio courses. Limited to seniors and should be completed in last year. Focus on creating final project that can be showcased at Senior Show.
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
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 8, 10, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 101, 104. Preparation: completion of preparation for major courses.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
DESMA 159
- DESMA 8Media Histories
- DESMA 10Design Culture
- DESMA 21Digital Image
- DESMA 22Fabrication and Materials
- DESMA 24Video and Motion
- DESMA 25Typography
- DESMA 28Interactivity
- DESMA 101Media Arts: Introduction
- DESMA 104Design Futures
9 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 12 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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.