DESMA 171
Topics in Interactivity and Games
Grades
3.82
Average grade awarded in DESMA 171. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
86%
of the 96 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 96 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.66 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 3 · 3.1%
- A 70 · 72.9%
- A- 10 · 10.4%
- B+ 2 · 2.1%
- B 8 · 8.3%
- B- 1 · 1.0%
- C 2 · 2.1%
- P 3 of 101
- I 2 of 101
Percentages are of the 96 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REAS, CASEY reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.70 | 46 | 2 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| MORRISON, ROMI reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.90 | 21 | 1 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| MCCARTHY, LAUREN LEE reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 4.00 | 16 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| BRUMLEY, JOHN THOMAS reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.87 | 13 · | 1 | 85% | - | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for DESMA 171 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, six hours; outside study, nine hours. Completion of preparation for major and upper-division core courses required. Requisites: courses 101 or 104, 157. Selected topics in interactive media and games explored through variety of approaches that may include projects, readings, discussion, research papers, and oral presentations. Topics announced in advance. May be repeated for maximum of 15 units. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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