DESMA 9
Art, Science, and Technology
Grades
3.79
Average grade awarded in DESMA 9. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 654 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
97% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 654 grades over 4 terms, 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, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.65 to 3.99.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 63 · 9.6%
- A 460 · 70.3%
- A- 59 · 9.0%
- B+ 12 · 1.8%
- B 19 · 2.9%
- B- 16 · 2.4%
- C+ 5 · 0.8%
- C 5 · 0.8%
- C- 3 · 0.5%
- D+ 1 · 0.2%
- D 3 · 0.5%
- F 8 · 1.2%
- P 57 of 716
- NP 2 of 716
- I 3 of 716
Percentages are of the 654 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VESNA, VICTORIA reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 654 | 4 | 89% | light | 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.
What the work looks like
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 1 reviewer
- 8 problem sets, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 projects, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 presentation, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 20 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 9 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.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 3 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2022. That is 3 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Exploration and survey of cultural impact of scientific and cultural innovations, technology-driven art inspired by science, and art/science collaborative projects. Introduction to vast array of cutting-edge research taking place on campus; scientific guest lecturers. Emphasis on art projects that use technology and respond to new scientific concepts. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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