DESMA 403
Graduate Critique
Seminar.
Fall 2025: 3 sections. 2 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 193 records over 10 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
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 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.
Historical grades for CARAVELLO, JENNA BETH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- S 34 of 34
Counts are out of 34 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 | Fall 2025 |
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| MCWILLIAMS, CHANDLER BRYSON reviews ↗ | S/U | 38 S/U | 2 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| STERN, EDDO I reviews ↗ | S/U | 22 S/U | 2 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| MCCARTHY, LAUREN LEE reviews ↗ | S/U | 22 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| CARAVELLO, JENNA BETH reviews ↗ | S/U | 34 S/U | 2 | - | - | Open, 1 seat left | |
| LUNENFELD, PETER B reviews ↗ | S/U | 25 S/U | 2 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| VESNA, VICTORIA reviews ↗ | S/U | 23 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| SEU, MALINDA reviews ↗ | S/U | 16 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| MORRISON, ROMI reviews ↗ | S/U | 13 S/U | 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.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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
Seminar, three hours; outside study, three hours. Limited to DMA graduate students. Students meet with instructor in small classroom setting to exchange ideas through presentation of current projects and research, discussion, research papers, and reports. Instructors vary quarterly between senate faculty, and visiting instructors and professions. Instructors may also invite visiting critics to contribute. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Sem 1 T 5:00pm-7:50pmOpenno grade history
1 seat left. 8 of 9 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Sem 2 W 5:00pm-7:50pmOpenno grade history
1 seat left. 8 of 9 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Sem 3 M 5:00pm-7:50pmClosedno grade history
6 of 6 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 24 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 16 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking DESMA 403 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
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External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.
Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 3 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Sem 1 · Caravello, J.B. · 8 of 9 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 8 of 9.
Sem 2 · Reas, C. · 8 of 9 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 8 of 9.
Sem 3 · Mendez, R. · 6 of 6 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 6 of 6.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.