MUSCLG 12W
Writing about Music
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.59
Average grade awarded in MUSCLG 12W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 304 letter grades
D, F or W
6.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 304 grades over 7 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 7 terms ran 3.19 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 46 · 15.1%
- A 171 · 56.3%
- A- 31 · 10.2%
- B+ 13 · 4.3%
- B 6 · 2.0%
- B- 6 · 2.0%
- C+ 8 · 2.6%
- C 3 · 1.0%
- C- 1 · 0.3%
- D+ 1 · 0.3%
- D 4 · 1.3%
- F 14 · 4.6%
- I 6 of 310
Percentages are of the 304 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, JENNY OLIVIA reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.19 | 72 | 1 | 61% | - | not teaching it |
| UPTON, ELIZABETH RANDELL reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.66 | 63 | 1 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| LE GUIN, ELISABETH COVEL reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.86 | 54 | 1 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| PARK, HYEONJIN reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.93 | 19 · | 1 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| OTT, CIERA C reviews ↗ | 3.58 | 3.56 | 18 · | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| HUGH SAM, JORDAN MATTHEW reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.76 | 17 · | 1 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| RHODD-LEE, HOLLAND M reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.59 | 14 · | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| BROWN, XAVIER VIKTOR reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.44 | 13 · | 1 | 69% | - | not teaching it |
| FITZPATRICK, ERIN ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 4.00 | 12 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| HEAD, EMILYN-AMALEA MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.50 | 12 · | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| BLACKMAR, MATTHEW DAY reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.48 | 10 · | 1 | 90% | - | 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.
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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for MUSCLG 12W in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Emphasis on learning specific skills, incorporating technical description, historical contextualization, subjective reaction, and certain stylistic conventions necessary in writing about music. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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