DESMA 172Topics in Video and Animation
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Completion of preparation for major and upper-division core courses required. Selected topics in video and animation explored through variety of approaches that may include projects, readings, discussion, research papers, and oral presentations. Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for maximum of 15 units.
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
Requisites: courses 101 or 104, and 153 or 156.
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 172
- 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.