DESMA 282Contemporary Topics in Media Arts
Design|Media Arts · 3 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Through discussions, readings, screenings, and critical writing, addresses a set of themes related to creative practices in moving image and computational media, and their historical and political roots. These include critical race theory, posthumanism, privacy, technology and power, identity and virtuality, digital aesthetics, play, and non-human authorship.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.