DESMA 299Professional Practice
Design|Media Arts · 2 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to graduate Design|Media Arts majors. Focus on professional training. Covers various topics related to professional practice in the field of media arts aimed at preparing students for different aspects of post-graduate life including finding and preparing for academic jobs, artist residencies, public art commissions, grant writing, gallery representation, non-profit and freelance work, PhD studies, and communication and documentation strategies.
S/U grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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.