School of the Arts and Architecture
2275 Broad Art Center
Box 951456
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456
Design|Media Arts
310-825-9007
Department e-mail
The Department of Design|Media Arts offers the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees. The BA degree focuses on visual communication design, with emphasis on digital media. The MFA degree focuses on media arts. These uniquely challenging programs invite students to balance aesthetic sensibility with logical reasoning, formal theories with practical application, and contemporary thought with historical perspective.
The Department of Design|Media Arts reserves the right to hold for exhibition purposes examples of any work done in classes and to retain for the permanent collection of its galleries such examples as may be selected.
Facilities and equipment in the department enable students to create work in two, three, and four dimensions. They expand opportunities for students to develop interactive media applications in a networked environment and advanced computer graphics. The department equipment includes computer laboratories with high-end PC and Macintosh computers and relevant software for the creation of works for print, web, video, and other media, a fabrication laboratory with equipment ranging from table saws to three-dimensional printers to a CNC machine to create physical objects combined with electronics, and a print laboratory with high-quality printers.
