200 FACULTY SEMINAR
Seminar, two hours. Limited to graduate design | media arts students. Designed to familiarize new graduate students with departmental faculty members and their creative work and research to help students select their faculty advisers. S/U grading.
201 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA ARTS
(Formerly numbered C201.) Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Limited to and required of Design | Media Arts majors. Survey of media arts, their history, aesthetics, and cultural roles from late-19th century to present. Investigation of media arts within broad historical and cultural framework. Discussion of parallels and links with other cultural forms, including history of technology and various art and design practices. S/U or letter grading.
201-C INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA ARTS
Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Limited to and required of Design | Media Arts majors. Survey of media arts, their history, aesthetics, and cultural roles from the late-19th century to the present. Investigation of media arts within broad historical and cultural framework. Discussion of parallels and links with other cultural forms, including history of technology and various art and design practices. Concurrently scheduled with course C101. Letter grading.
206-C MEDIA STUDIES
Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Designed for graduate design | media arts students. Overview and contextual understanding of influences and origins of media, communication paradigms, and technologies of past 150 years through reading and discussion of theoretical and historical works. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Concurrently scheduled with course C106. Letter grading.
241-M COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
252A INTERACTIVE MEDIA 1
(Formerly numbered C252A.) Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Limited to majors. Introduction to computer programming within context of art and design. Exploration of conceptual space enabled by electronic media through exercises, presentations, discussions, and critiques. Weekly exercises balance concept and technique to reveal potential of computer as medium and tool. Experience with programming basics includes procedural and object-oriented programming, two- and three-dimensional graphics, file I/O, color models, and image processing. Letter grading.
252A PROGRAMMING I
Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Limited to majors. Introduction to computer programming within context of art and design. Exploration of conceptual space enabled by electronic media through exercises, presentations, discussions, and critiques. Weekly exercises balance concept and technique to reveal potential of computer as medium and tool. Experience with programming basics includes procedural and object-oriented programming, two- and three-dimensional graphics, file I/O, color models, and image processing. Concurrently scheduled with course C152A. Letter grading.
252B-C INTERACTIVE MEDIA 2
Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Requisite: course 252A. Limited to majors. Computer programming to develop dynamic interactive art and design. Exploration of conceptual space to be enabled by electronic media and through exercises, presentations, discussions, and critiques, culminating in self-motivated final project. Prototyping with diverse software materials and advanced programming techniques. May be repeated once for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C152B. Letter grading.
254 DYNAMIC MEDIA
Lecture/studio, six hours. Designed for graduate design | media arts majors. Emphasis on creation of dynamic, digital, and linear works through integration of typography, photography, video, graphics, animation, and sound. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
256 INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Lecture/studio, six hours. Requisites: courses 201 or C206, 254. Designed for graduate design | media arts majors. Emphasis on comprehension of fundamental principles of interactivity and networked environments. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
258 CURRENT STATE OF TECHNOLOGY
Lecture/studio, six hours. Designed for graduate design | media arts majors. Introduction to state-of-the-art software programs and techniques necessary for design of interactive and multimedia applications. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
259-M DATA & MEDIA ARTS
(Same as Statistics M237.) Studio, six hours. Requisites: courses 254, 256. Through expanding reach of telecommunications networks and general advancement of data collection technologies, almost every aspect of our lives can be "rendered" in data. Contemplation of use of data in creation of media art and examination of each step in process of data collection, analysis, and representation. Topics include databases and data warehousing, exploratory analysis and visualization, clustering and pattern finding, sampling, and various data mining algorithms. Exploration, through discussions, of fundamental concepts like complexity and randomness. Techniques that organize data, search for patterns, and create meaningful and/or expressive representations. Letter grading.
269 GRADUATE SEMINAR
Seminar, four hours. Designed for graduate design | media arts majors. Survey of critical theories in media art and design. Critical examination of student work by peers, faculty members, and expert guests. Must be taken twice for M.F.A. degree. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
289 SPECIAL TOPICS IN DESIGN
Seminar, to be arranged. Examination of specific problems relevant to design theory and performance. Topics announced in advance. May be taken for maximum of 8 units. Letter grading.
375 TEACHING APPRENTICE PROGRAM
Seminar, to be arranged. Preparation: apprentice personnel employment as teaching assistant, associate, or fellow. Teaching apprenticeship under active guidance and supervision of regular faculty member responsible for curriculum and instruction at UCLA. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
401 DESMA STUDIO 1
Studio, to be arranged. Limited to first-year graduate design | media arts students. Introduction to advanced experimentation and integration of media, technologies, and concepts, with emphasis on development of design work of individual graduate students. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
402 DESMA STUDIO 2
Studio, to be arranged. Requisites: courses C206, 254, 256, 401. Continuation of advanced design research based on experimentation integrated into disciplined approach to design process. Focus on development of comprehensive body of work that forms basis of M.F.A. thesis exhibition. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
495 TA TRAINING PRACTICUM
Seminar, three hours; outside study, three hours. Forum for first-year teaching assistants for discussion and exploration of teaching pedagogy and classroom mechanics. Problems and practices of teaching design at college level, as well as role of teaching assistants within department. Designed to help new teaching assistants develop teaching skills and to orient them to department and University policies and resources. May not be applied toward degree requirements. S/U grading.
* Classes are closed to non-majors. Students seeking to enroll must consult with the instructor on the first day of instruction. Non-majors are limited to a maximum of five DESMA courses. '-C' indicates class concurrently enrolls undergraduate and graduate students.