DESMA 28
Interactivity
Grades
3.77
Average grade awarded in DESMA 28. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
85%
of the 134 letter grades
D, F or W
1.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 134 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 3.56 to 3.94.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 27 · 20.1%
- A 73 · 54.5%
- A- 14 · 10.4%
- B+ 5 · 3.7%
- B 8 · 6.0%
- B- 3 · 2.2%
- C 2 · 1.5%
- D- 1 · 0.7%
- F 1 · 0.7%
- P 1 of 140
- NP 2 of 140
- I 3 of 140
Percentages are of the 134 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REAS, CASEY reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 79 | 4 | 85% | light | not teaching it |
| MCCARTHY, LAUREN LEE reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.74 | 55 | 3 | 85% | average | 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
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before DESMA 28. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 28 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 25, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
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. Introduction to concept of interactivity and field of media art that follows history of computer as media for artistic exploration in relation to print, animation, and interactivity. Discussion of potential and ideas related to interactivity, with focus on required skills for creating interactive work. Development of programming skills in service of creating examples of media art. Concepts and skills taught enhance student ability to excel in future courses about Internet, animation, interactive media, and game design. Discussion and readings on four themes—form/programming, motion, interactivity/programming, and interface. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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