URBN PL 222A
Introduction to Planning History and Theory
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in URBN PL 222A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 398 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 398 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 3.68 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 88 · 22.1%
- A 231 · 58.0%
- A- 53 · 13.3%
- B+ 17 · 4.3%
- B 4 · 1.0%
- B- 2 · 0.5%
- C+ 1 · 0.3%
- C 1 · 0.3%
- F 1 · 0.3%
- I 4 of 404
- NR 2 of 404
Percentages are of the 398 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I) and no report (NR).
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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VESTAL, MARQUES AUGUSTA reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.95 | 321 | 4 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| ROY, ANANYA reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.68 | 77 | 1 | 73% | very light | 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 Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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, three hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Required of first-year MURP students, typically in Fall Quarter; required of first-year PhD students who have not completed comparable graduate course in planning history and theory. Exploration of planning thought and practice over time, leading authors and key issues in field of planning, traditional and insurgent histories of planning, and alternative approaches to planning for multiple and pluralistic publics. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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