DESMA 1
Code and Art
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 10 records over 1 term.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
100%
10 of 10 students passed
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
Every one of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- P 10 of 10
Counts are out of 10 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JIN, CHELLY ASHLEY reviews ↗ | P/NP | 10 P/NP | 1 | - | - | 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
dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 1 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
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, 30 hours. Limited to high school students. Exploration of what code can do within the visual arts and what can be done with it. Focus on exercises with templates that can be modified and adjusted for new learners, and that can be extended by people with prior knowledge in this area. Includes series of short exercises covering a wide range of possibilities and a final project. Exploration of range of experiences including drawing, coding for the web, interactive performance, and generative art. Creation of software within visual arts realm. Builds a foundation for future learning. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking DESMA 1 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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