INF STD 275Community Media and Design
Information Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Information professionals, scholars, activists, and information creators/designers/architects focus on questions of culture and community to engage students in understanding information resources as cultural objects. Role of cultural heritage institutions within dynamics presented, but most fundamentally on how communities in partnership with information professionals can create, author, and represent information on their own and within their own terms. How new media can begin to serve as tool of empowerment rather than stratification. Study of impacts of technology on larger scales through readings and introductory sketches.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- 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.