DESMA 5
Introduction to Design | Media Arts
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 178 records over 2 terms.
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 178 of 178
Counts are out of 178 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STERN, EDDO I reviews ↗ | P/NP | 101 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| TRAN, HELEN reviews ↗ | P/NP | 77 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
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
dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 5 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, 40 hours. Limited to high school students. Two-week summer course designed to meet needs of high school students interested in exploring their creative potential within fields of design media arts, with focus on concepts of narrative and storytelling. Introduction to and exploration of variety of media such as graphic, web, game, and video design with goal of combining and integrating these media to express and realize their narrative projects. Students work with most current software and technology in each discipline area, developing diverse skill sets while cultivating conceptual capabilities around storytelling project, and with experienced instructors and professionals in field to develop projects utilizing this comprehensive and integrative approach. Culminates in portfolios that may be used for college applications. Possible field trips. May be repeated for credit without limitation. Offered only as part of Summer Institute. P/NP grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking DESMA 5 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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