URBN PL 228B

Advanced Visual Communication

Urban Planning · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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(Formerly numbered 218B.) Lecture, 90 minutes; computer laboratory, 90 minutes. Development of advanced graphic design and oral communication skills, and strengthening of writing abilities through lectures, computer laboratories, and critiques. Students apply visual communication skills through lens of professional planning practice, assuming role of consultant to prepare presentations and plans for client. Follows typical urban planning project from start to finish, and exposes students to professional consulting practice through quick, fast-paced project.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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