DESMA 252C

Materiality

Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Limited to Design|Media Arts majors. Exploration of use of electromechanical actuators and sensors, custom interface design, microcontroller programming, and building kinetic and interactive physical artworks. Practical electronics theory, programming for embedded systems, two-dimensional and three-dimensional CAD, basic milling, laser cutting, mold making, circuit building, and other sculptural electronics fabrication techniques.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

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
Enforced requisite: course 252A.

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DESMA 252A

Requires

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

DESMA 252C

DESMA 252ACoding for the Arts

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course 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.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.