DESMA 160Special Topics in Design | Media Arts
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Completion of preparation for major and upper-division core courses required. Selected topics in design and media arts explored through variety of approaches that may include projects, readings, discussion, research papers, and oral presentations. Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for credit with topic change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 101 or 104.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
DESMA 160
- DESMA 159CCapstone Senior Project: Visual Communication and Image
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.