DESMA 21
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Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in DESMA 21. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 143 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 143 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 3.74 to 3.99.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 54 · 37.8%
- A 63 · 44.1%
- A- 12 · 8.4%
- B+ 8 · 5.6%
- B 3 · 2.1%
- B- 1 · 0.7%
- C 2 · 1.4%
- P 2 of 146
- I 1 of 146
Percentages are of the 143 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALABRE, SAM BAKER reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 46 | 2 | 87% | light | not teaching it |
| JIANG, YUEHAO reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.81 | 42 | 2 | 83% | very light | not teaching it |
| WEISSBROT, LENA N reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.99 | 22 | 1 | 100% | very light | not teaching it |
| KUMAR, ANNAPURNA reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.96 | 22 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| PERSON, IMAN SHARI reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.82 | 11 · | 1 | 91% | - | 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.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 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
Studio, six hours; outside study, six hours. For drawing, exploration of relationship between concept and image creation while fostering development of sound drawing and observation skills. For color, exploration of development of fundamental skills in mixing and applying pigments with brush on watercolor paper, as well as use of computer as tool for working with colors. Combination of painting and software to be predominant way of exploring and presenting ideas regarding color. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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