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Dibs Fall 2026

DESMA

Design / Media Arts

56 courses on record · 7 with sections in Fall 2026

Live section data currently covers GE courses; the rest is filled in by a nightly pass, so this department is likely running more than is listed here.

56 courses

Lower division 13

Lower division courses in Design / Media Arts
Course Title Predicted GPA This term
3 Game Design no letter grades —
5 Introduction to Design | Media Arts no letter grades —
6 Art/Science and Technology Studio/Laboratory no letter grades —
7 Critical Game Culture GE 3.82 n=120 —
8 Media Histories GE 3.90 n=189 —
9 Art, Science, and Technology GE 3.79 n=654 —
10 Design Culture GE 3.87 n=882 1 section
21 Digital Image 3.88 n=120 1 section
22 Fabrication and Materials 3.96 n=79 1 section
24 Video and Motion 3.76 n=76 —
25 Typography 3.76 n=166 —
28 Interactivity 3.77 n=134 —
29 Social Computing GE no grade history —

Upper division 33

Upper division courses in Design / Media Arts
Course Title Predicted GPA This term
101 Media Arts: Introduction 3.83 n=298 —
104 Design Futures 3.92 n=228 —
110 Tangible Media 3.91 n=13 small sample —
111 Art and the Internet 3.81 n=23 —
113 Generative Art 3.74 n=19 small sample —
115 Arts and Science Collaboration 3.91 n=17 small sample —
116 Sonic Media no grade history —
125 Game Design 3.80 n=30 —
126 Game Engine 3.72 n=28 —
127 Interactive Animation 3.62 n=20 —
129 Collaborative Game Lab 3.94 n=15 small sample —
130 Experiments in Virtuality 3.69 n=24 —
131 Three-Dimensional Modeling and Motion 3.66 n=40 —
140 Word + Image 3.83 n=33 —
141 Web Design and User Interface and Experience no grade history —
144 Type in Motion 3.89 n=22 —
145 Design Research 3.93 n=17 small sample —
146 Ecological Arts and Justice Practice 3.85 n=16 small sample —
150 Professional Practices 3.69 n=22 —
152 Tangible Media 3.95 n=80 —
153 Video 3.92 n=26 —
154 Word + Image 3.85 n=62 —
155 Interactive Animation 3.92 n=90 —
156 Three-Dimensional Modeling and Motion 3.86 n=74 —
157 Game Design 3.87 n=113 —
158 Game Engine 3.73 n=33 —
159 Capstone Senior Project in Design Media Arts 3.97 n=152 —
159A Capstone Senior Project: Interactivity and Games 3.89 n=14 small sample —
160 Special Topics in Design | Media Arts: Game History and Analysis 3.86 n=284 —
161 Network Media 3.79 n=79 —
171 Topics in Interactivity and Games 3.82 n=96 —
172 Topics in Video and Animation 3.90 n=58 —
173 Topics in Visual Communication and Image 3.87 n=28 —

Graduate 10

Graduate courses in Design / Media Arts
Course Title Predicted GPA This term
200 Design|Media Arts Faculty Seminar no letter grades 1 section
252A Coding for the Arts 3.92 n=10 small sample —
252C Virtuality 3.93 n=22 —
266 Creating Context and Collaborative Projects no grade history —
269 Graduate Seminar 3.85 n=41 —
282 Contemporary Topics in Media Arts 3.92 n=10 small sample —
289 Special Topics in Media Arts: Seminar 1 3.91 n=22 1 section
403 Graduate Critique no letter grades 3 sections
404 Graduate Tutorial 3.96 n=32 —
495 Teaching Assistant Training Practicum no letter grades 1 section

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the department average, so a course taught once to a dozen students sits near the department mean rather than at whatever those twelve happened to get. The figure is always shown — small sample marks where it rests mostly on that prior.