DESMA 2
Artificial Intelligence and Art
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 21 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%
100% of those 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 21 of 21
Counts are out of 21 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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MITITELU, AURORA reviews ↗ | P/NP | 21 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
A review summary isn't available yet. Check the current syllabus or linked reviews. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 2 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 how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with the visual arts, and automated algorithms as a tool for creative expression. Starting from early collage and montage practices, exploration of how artists have used cultural fragments as their medium to explore meaning through juxtaposition and appropriation. Study of how computational methods enabled artists to explore such practices with increasing fidelity and magnitudes of data. Consideration of recent surge in interest in the field of AI, and what that might mean for understanding art. Discussion of topics such as perception, augmentation, deep fakes, surveillance, privacy, and automation. Includes short lectures, discussions, workshops, time to work in class, and feedback sessions. No prior programming or machine learning knowledge required. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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