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MUSCLG 71

Listening

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to humanistic study of listening, as perceptual modality for engaging others and world, with focus on experience, history, politics, and ethics of listening. Hearing is shared perceptive faculty among able-bodied people, but listening practices are shaped by history, society, and culture. Hearing people listen differently depending on when, where, and how they live, as well as who they are as individuals. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.69
n = 171 · 2 terms · ± 0.040
A range
83%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
86% of those passed
D / F / W
4.1%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 5924S
  • 12025S
Enrolment by term: 24S 59, 25S 120
Peak 120 Most recent 120 in 25S 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 60 · 33.5%
  • A 61 · 34.1%
  • A- 21 · 11.7%
  • B+ 9 · 5.0%
  • B 7 · 3.9%
  • B- 2 · 1.1%
  • C+ 2 · 1.1%
  • C 1 · 0.6%
  • C- 1 · 0.6%
  • D+ 2 · 1.1%
  • D 1 · 0.6%
  • F 4 · 2.2%
  • P 6 · 3.4%
  • NP 1 · 0.6%
  • I 1 · 0.6%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
BROWN, KRISTI ANN 3.68 3.68 171 2 83%

“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.

By term