DIS STD 163B

Autism Media Laboratory

Disability Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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People with autism who are nonspeaking face challenges fully participating in their communities. Exploration of documentary filmmaking as catalyst to educate greater community on importance of inclusion of people with disabilities. Students work together with community teachers, autistic self-advocates who are nonspeaking or minimally speaking, to create documentary short films. Students explore issues related to autism and disability while gaining exposure to observational, interview-based, and participatory documentary shooting and editing techniques.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 163A.

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DIS STD 163A

Requires

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

DIS STD 163B

DIS STD 163AAutism Media Laboratory

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

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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.