DESMA 130
Experiments in Virtuality
Grades
3.63
Average grade awarded in DESMA 130. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
79%
of the 24 letter grades
D, F or W
4.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 24 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 16.7%
- A 10 · 41.7%
- A- 5 · 20.8%
- B+ 2 · 8.3%
- B 2 · 8.3%
- F 1 · 4.2%
Percentages are of the 24 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CROCKETT, NICHOLAS J reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.63 | 24 | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before DESMA 130. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 130 in Winter 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 101 and DESMA 104, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Studio, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Requisites: course 101 or 104. Virtuality is a realm of potential, defined by its proximity to reality and our bodies—it is not software or platform specific. Study provides a framework for students to develop projects that explore different kinds of virtual platforms and spaces. Focus on tools, workflows, and modalities that correspond to the instructor’s unique specialization, which may include expanded cinema, mixed-reality live performance practices, projection mapping, spatialized sound, or virtual reality. Discussions, individual research, readings, and screenings center on building collaborative projects, linear and nonlinear storytelling, spatial design, and approaches to expression through designing and interfacing with the virtual. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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