THEATER 163ADirecting for Stage
Theater · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Intensive development of primary directing skills and process, including text analysis and exploration of craft fundamentals as basis for director/actor communication and effective staging. Students direct scenes from plays under laboratory conditions.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 15, 160.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
THEATER 163A
- THEATER 15Introduction to Directing
- THEATER 160Fundamentals of Play Direction
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. 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.
THEATER 163A
- THEATER C163DDirecting Project for Stage
- THEATER C263DDirecting Project for Stage
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.