URBN PL 228AVisual Communication Skills
Urban Planning · 2 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Five-week course. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, one hour. Greater emphasis on graphic presentation and visual communication to educate stakeholders, advocate for change, and encourage participation in planning process in recent years, in both public and private sector. Visual communication requires analytic skills and strategic thinking, strong foundation in design theory, and technical skills in computer programs. Introduction to Adobe InDesign and Illustrator and foundation in design theory and communication. How to use graphic design and presentation programs to create attractive and powerful planning materials and reports, design principles to communicate ideas in clear, succinct, and engaging manner, and when and how to use graphic materials to support verbal presentations or written reports.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- 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.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.