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DESMA 160 · Stu 1

Special Topics in Design | Media Arts: Game History and Analysis

Fall 2026 · O Grady, D.K. and an unnamed TA · 5 units

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Status
Open

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Restrictions read 23 hours ago.
Enrolled
15 of 20
75% full
Read 10 minutes ago, and the registrar publishes once an hour, so this is current.
Waitlist
No waitlist
Seat risk
medium risk

From the registrar limited to

Seats are held for entering students who enroll through New Student Orientation sessions beginning July 2, 2026. New student restrictions will be lifted on September 15, 2026 at 8 a.m. Beginning September 15, 2026, interested students may request permission to enroll from the instructor.

The limit lifts into a request, not an open seat: after that date you may ask the instructor, and it is theirs to grant. Dibs still lists the class, but an open count here is not a seat you can simply take.

When it meets

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Meets: TR 9:00am-11:50am

Broad Art Center 4240

Predicted GPA

3.86
course average · 284 grades
A range
91%
P/NP
-
letter grade only
D/F/W
0.4%

Full grade history for DESMA 160

What students say

Dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast it fills. For what the class is actually like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Enrollment over time

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist. The last one is the most recent sweep, moved or not. The line holds flat between dots because that is what the readings say: it did not drift, it held and then jumped. The ticks along the bottom are the hours Dibs recorded reading this section, which is how a flat run says "checked, unchanged" rather than "nobody looked". It only keeps those from 25 August, so the ruler is shorter than the line for now. Both start when Dibs did rather than reaching back before it existed.

Freed 1 seat over 10 days

2114
18 Aug 21:40capacity 2029 Aug 08:40
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Recorded Enrolled Capacity Status Waitlist
29 Aug 08:40 15 20 open -
29 Aug 01:40 15 20 open -
28 Aug 23:40 16 20 open -
28 Aug 22:40 15 20 open -
28 Aug 14:40 16 20 open -
28 Aug 13:40 15 20 open -
28 Aug 11:40 16 20 open -
28 Aug 10:40 15 20 open -
18 Aug 21:40 16 20 open -

How big this course usually runs

Final enrollment per term from four years of grade data. Summer excluded: different population, different pass structure.

  • 1421F
  • 1522W
  • 2322S
  • 2422F
  • 2323W
  • 2023S
  • 1823F
  • 1924W
  • 2324S
  • 2025W
Enrollment by term: 21F 14, 22W 15, 22S 23, 22F 24, 23W 23, 23S 20, 23F 18, 24W 19, 24S 23, 25W 20

Peak 24 · most recent 25W at 20