DESMA 116
Sonic Media
Studio.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before DESMA 116. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 101, DESMA 104, and DESMA 25, 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. Requisites: courses 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, and 101 or 104. Examination of realm of sound as an artistic medium. Exploration of its conceptual, theoretical, and practical dimensions. From exploring sound perception, memory, and human orientation to embracing everyday auditory encounters, study delves into various approaches for crafting and showcasing sound-based media projects. Overview of sound art and sound design practices. Topics span from fundamental sound theory and acoustics to psychoacoustics, sound compositions, and spatial audio. Covers techniques such as editing and mixing to employ effects and automation. Includes areas such as field recordings, voice, and sound synthesis. Students gain honed listening skills and a robust theoretical framework, empowering them to articulate interests and creative visions through sound. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Stu 1 TR 2:00pm-4:50pmClosed
Meyer, P. and Harris, R.
no grade history20 of 20 enrolled high risk
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Stu 1 · Meyer, P. and Harris, R. · 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the waitlist moved and came back.
All 9 readings say 20 of 20.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
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