DESMA 10
Design Culture
Grades
3.87
Average grade awarded in DESMA 10. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 939 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
17 of 18 students passed
The registrar's own records: 939 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.55 to 3.94.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 499 · 53.1%
- A 290 · 30.9%
- A- 80 · 8.5%
- B+ 23 · 2.4%
- B 20 · 2.1%
- B- 6 · 0.6%
- C+ 6 · 0.6%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- C- 5 · 0.5%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 8 · 0.9%
- P 17 of 958
- NP 1 of 958
- I 1 of 958
Percentages are of the 939 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUHTAMO, ERKKI ILMARI reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 908 | 4 | 93% | light | not teaching it |
| KEEVER, JUSTIN ALEXANDER reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.55 | 31 | 1 | 74% | - | 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
- No exams, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 quizzes, said by 4 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 5 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 46 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Understanding the design process, with emphasis on the development of visual language; study of historic, scientific, technological, economic, and cultural factors influencing design in physical environments. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
From the people who took it
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