MUSC 20A
Music Theory I
Grades
3.48
Average grade awarded in MUSC 20A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
63%
of the 288 letter grades
D, F or W
2.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
2 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 288 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 3.37 to 3.65.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 36 · 12.5%
- A 99 · 34.4%
- A- 45 · 15.6%
- B+ 38 · 13.2%
- B 28 · 9.7%
- B- 14 · 4.9%
- C+ 13 · 4.5%
- C 7 · 2.4%
- C- 2 · 0.7%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- F 5 · 1.7%
- P 2 of 291
- NP 1 of 291
Percentages are of the 288 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MILBURN, DWAYNE STEVEN reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.41 | 107 | 5 | 63% | light | not teaching it |
| MEITES, NOAH GIDEON reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.63 | 76 | 4 | 67% | - | not teaching it |
| OBA, HITOMI MARGARET reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.68 | 37 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| DE SILVA, DANTE L reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.12 | 28 | 1 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
| DEPINNA, NICK reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.49 | 21 | 1 | 67% | - | not teaching it |
| LEFKOWITZ, DAVID SAMUEL reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.41 | 19 · | 1 | 58% | - | 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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In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: passing score on departmental examination. Course 20A is enforced requisite to 20B, which is enforced requisite to 20C. Students must receive grade of C or better to proceed to next course in sequence. Theory: species counterpoint through fifth species; description of triads and inversions. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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