THEATER C454ASound Design
Theater · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Introduction to sound and audio in acoustic, audio, and digital domain. Study and practice of techniques for recording, editing, and creating soundscapes. May be repeated once for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C154A.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Fall 2026
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.
THEATER C454A
- THEATER C454DScript Analysis for Sound Design
- THEATER C454FField Recording and Content Creation for Sound Designers
- THEATER C454GMusic Technology for Sound Design
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.