DESMA 160

Special Topics in Design | Media Arts

Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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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.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 101 or 104.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

DESMA 160

DESMA 101Media Arts: Introduction
DESMA 104Design Futures

2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

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.