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DESMA 28Interactivity

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

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Foundational introduction to coding within the visual arts with a focus on interactivity. Consideration of interactions with other people and the environment as the starting point for understanding interactions with code. Includes workshops and discussions with demonstrations and studio time. Consideration of how software has affected the visual arts; the potential of software within the visual arts; why a designer or artist would want or need to write software within the visual arts; and the power relationships, inequities, and biases embedded within software and technology.

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Requisites: courses 21, 22, 25.

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  • DESMA 21
  • DESMA 22
  • DESMA 25

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DESMA 28

  • DESMA 21Digital Image
  • DESMA 22Fabrication and Materials
  • DESMA 25Typography

3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

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DESMA 283 more beyond

  • DESMA 110Tangible Media
  • DESMA 111Art and the Internet
  • DESMA 112Performing User
  • DESMA 113Generative Art
  • DESMA 114Arts Research and Practice
  • DESMA 115Art and Science Collaboration
  • DESMA 116Sonic Media
  • DESMA 125Game Design
  • DESMA 126Game Engine
  • DESMA 129Collaborative Game Lab
  • 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

18 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 15 courses over 1 level; 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.