THEATER C212CSpeculative Stages: Shaping Future Technology through Performance
Theater · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Exploration of how stories, particularly in embodied speculative fiction, shape the way technologies are imagined, built, and used in real life. Through theory, discussion, and experimentation, exploration of the interplay between fiction and reality. Focus both on how 20th- and 21st-century speculative fiction has impacted the technology that we use today and how staging new and different fictions could impact collective imaginaries and future technologies. Concurrently scheduled with course C112C.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course C212A or C212B.
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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 C212C
- THEATER C212AEmerging Technologies and Their Uses in Live Performance
- THEATER C212BArtificial Intelligence in Live Performance
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses 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.