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.
252A PROGRAMMING I
(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.
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.
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.
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.