DESMA 159CCapstone Senior Project: Visual Communication and Image
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Visual communication, editorial design, photography, typography, branding, and narrative environments. Limited to seniors. Visual communication, editorial design, photography, typography, branding, and narrative environments. Focus on creating final project that can be showcased at Senior Show. Students can take two different courses in different terms or the same course twice in different terms. Total units for courses 159A, 159B, and 159C may not exceed 10 units, with maximum of 5 units per term.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Preparation: completion of preparation for major courses. Requisites: courses 24, 28, 101, 104, 154, and 160, 171, 172, or 173.
BruinTree reads · Preparation
needs reviewconfidence 0.00 · from textBruinTree could not read this requirement — see UCLA’s wording above.
- · could not read "completion of preparation for major courses" (no course number found)
- · no course reference could be read from this requisite
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.65 · from text- · "DESMA 154" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "courses 24, 28, 101, 104, 154, and 160, 171, 172, or 173" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
DESMA 159C
- DESMA 24Video and Motion
- DESMA 28Interactivity
- DESMA 101Media Arts: Introduction
- DESMA 104Design Futures
- DESMA 160Special Topics in Design | Media Arts
- DESMA 171Topics in Interactivity and Games
- DESMA 172Topics in Video and Animation
- DESMA 153Video
- DESMA 173Topics in Visual Communication and Image
8 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 23 courses over 3 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.