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DESMA 22Fabrication and Materials

Design|Media Arts · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Hands-on foundation combining aspects of hand making, sculpture, engineering, woodworking, traditional crafts, three-dimensional (3D) modeling and digital fabrication, and other practices. Offers a survey of many different ways of making, while analyzing the aesthetic, political, and environmental meanings of materials and how they are used to create 3D objects. Students produce their own relationship to materials and fabrication while forming a personal aesthetic language.

P/NP or letter grading.

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Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

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

Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

DESMA 22

  • DESMA 28Interactivity1 more beyond
    • DESMA 110Tangible Mediaanother path to it
    • DESMA 111Art and the Internetanother path to it
    • DESMA 112Performing Useranother path to it
    • DESMA 125Game Design
    • DESMA 126Game Engine
    • DESMA 129Collaborative Game Lab
    • DESMA 159ASenior Praxis
      • DESMA 159BSenior Capstone Project
    • DESMA 159CCapstone Senior Project: Visual Communication and Image
  • DESMA 110Tangible Media
  • DESMA 112Performing User
  • DESMA 113Generative Art
  • DESMA 114Arts Research and Practice
  • DESMA 115Art and Science Collaboration
  • DESMA 116Sonic Media
  • DESMA 140Word + Image
    • DESMA 111Art and the Internet
  • DESMA 141Web Design and User Interface and Experience
  • DESMA 142Design Systems
  • DESMA 144Type in Motion
  • DESMA 145Design Research
  • DESMA 159Capstone Senior Project in Design Media Arts

13 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 23 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.