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department Design | Media Arts (X) |
Studio, 30 hours. Limited to high school students. Basic and advanced photography skills using digital cameras. Alteration/manipulation of photos using techniques from latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Uploading of images on Web or in print. Production of digital and print portfolio of student work. Field trips to surrounding West Los Angeles locales to shoot photos. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
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Studio, 30 hours. Limited to high school students. How Web design works: basic hand coding and creation of personalized homepages with Macromedia Director and Flash software. Photograph scanning and manipulation of images in Adobe Photoshop to incorporate student Web designs. Critique of various Web pages to analyze successful use of Web design and understand enormous potential of Internet. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
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Studio, 30 hours. Limited to high school students. Design and creation of student digital games, beginning with storyboard and learning how to bring game design to life. Creation and animation of three-dimensional characters and objects by using Maya, same software used by professional game developers. Analysis of popular games to understand what is involved in producing modern games. Visits from professional game designer to help guide students in creating their own game designs. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
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Studio, 30 hours. Limited to high school students. Creation of storyboard for short documentary, commercial, or music video. Students shoot and edit their own work by learning fundamentals of preproduction and postproduction using latest digital software, Adobe Premiere and After Effects, to create their work. Burning of DVD of finished production. Visits from professional video producer to help guide students in creating their own videos. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
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Studio/laboratory, 40 hours. Limited to high school students. Two-week summer course, including lectures, required screenings, laboratory visits, field trips, and outside study. Exploration of creative aspects of scientific research and innovation to gain broad understanding of impact of science on contemporary art and popular culture, with focus on new sciences of biotechnology and nanotechnology. Development of proposals and ideas that could serve as prototypes for either art projects or scientific research study. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, two hours; screenings, two hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Introductory course to explore media arts (artworks applying new media technology) and their relationship to culture and society. Students gain broad understanding of media arts from early experiments by futurists and constructivists to most recent phenomena like game art and artistic experiments with wearable and portable media. Development of critical awareness toward pervasive impact of media on everyday life, leading to active, critical, and personalized understanding of mediated world. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Exploration and survey of cultural impact of scientific and cultural innovations, technology-driven art inspired by science, and art/science collaborative projects. Introduction to vast array of cutting-edge research taking place on campus; scientific guest lecturers. Emphasis on art projects that use technology and respond to new scientific concepts. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Open to nonmajors. Understanding design process, with emphasis on development of visual language; study of historic, scientific, technological, economic, and cultural factors influencing design in our physical environment. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Requisite: course 10. Survey of evolution of design for mass production from mid-19th century to 1930 in Western Europe and North America. Investigation of wide range of objects of design, including industrial and product design, with focus on graphic design as mirror of social, cultural, and technological ideas within broadly defined cultural context. Particular attention to topics such as designer's role in production of visual environment, development of design in context of other kinds of visual media, age-old question of art versus design, and many other arguments and theories that continue to echo through contemporary practice. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Enforced requisite: course 11A. Development of ideas and projects in design, with focus on graphic design primarily in U.S. from 1930 to 1990. Beginning with proposition that there is no one way to practice or analyze contemporary design, lectures focus on evolution of range of issues that include role of designer, practice of design, and consumption of design. Design as art, service, science, politics, and other definitions of practice -- and investigation of physical realizations of those practices as way to understand pluralities of design today. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
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Studio, six hours. Introduction to theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, six hours. Interrelation of two-dimensional surfaces and three-dimensional forms with traditional and experimental materials as foundation for creativity; origination and solution of problems. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, six hours. Translation of perception through delineation, drawing, and other descriptive media. Emphasis on development of students' motor control by means of freehand and mechanical drawing and by development of analytical and objective observation from life and three-dimensional objects. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, six hours. Introduction and integration of traditional design tools, camera, and digital technologies for application to visual thinking and fundamentals of design. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, six hours; outside study, six hours. Focus on three typographic basics: letter, text, and grid. Introduction to fundamentals of typography. Assignments designed to develop understanding of form, scale, and shape of letters as single elements and as texture in layout. Emphasis on grid (structure and layout) and information hierarchy to create successful typographic messages. P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, six hours; outside study, six hours. Introduction to concept of interactivity and field of media art that follows history of computer as media for artistic exploration in relation to print, animation, and interactivity. Discussion of potential and ideas related to interactivity, with focus on required skills for creating interactive work. Development of programming skills in service of creating examples of media art. Concepts and skills taught enhance student ability to excel in future courses about Internet, animation, interactive media, and game design. Discussion and readings on four themes -- form/programming, motion, interactivity/programming, and interface. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Limited to 20 students. Designed as adjunct to lower division lecture course. Exploration of topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities and led by lecture course instructor. May be applied toward honors credit for eligible students. Honors content noted on transcript. P/NP or letter grading.
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Tutorial (supervised research or other scholarly work), three hours per week per unit. Entry-level research for lower division students under guidance of faculty mentor. Students must be in good academic standing and enrolled in minimum of 12 units (excluding this course). Individual contract required; consult Undergraduate Research Center. May be repeated. P/NP grading.
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(Formerly numbered C101.) 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. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Overview of digital imaging technology and its application in design, media arts, and entertainment from both technical and content-based points of view. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Preparation: completion of preparation for major courses. Open to nonmajors with consent of instructor. Historical and thematic examination of how design affects society from classical antiquity to 20th century in order to understand historically how each type and application of design related to sociological context in which it existed. Consideration of how various design practices and techniques related to each other. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Preparation: completion of preparation for major courses. 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. Concurrently scheduled with course C206. Letter grading.
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Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Enforced requisites: courses 25, 154A. Development of design research and strategy in areas of organization, culture, and identity. Study of how complex organizations are defined by their public identities and how those identities can be strategized and designed. Topics include following phases of brand identity development: research, brand strategy and planning, communication strategy, implementation guidelines, and design development of specific communication material in all appropriate media (Web, print, and environment). P/NP or letter grading.
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Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Enforced requisites: courses 25, 154A. Development of design research and strategy in areas of organization, culture, and identity. Study of how complex organizations are defined by their public identities and how those identities can be strategized and designed. Topics include following phases of brand identity development: research, brand strategy and planning, communication strategy, implementation guidelines, and design development of specific communication material in all appropriate media (Web, print, and environment). P/NP or letter grading.
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