MSC IND 29
Music Documentary in History and Practice
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in MSC IND 29. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 483 letter grades
D, F or W
0.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
12 of 12 students passed
The registrar's own records: 483 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.85 to 3.97.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 287 · 59.4%
- A 133 · 27.5%
- A- 30 · 6.2%
- B+ 12 · 2.5%
- B 8 · 1.7%
- B- 5 · 1.0%
- C+ 1 · 0.2%
- C 3 · 0.6%
- C- 2 · 0.4%
- F 2 · 0.4%
- P 12 of 498
- I 3 of 498
Percentages are of the 483 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and 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 A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEAF, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 483 | 4 | 93% | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
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.
What the work looks like
- No exams, said by 2 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 9 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 6 reviewers
Read from 20 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for MSC IND 29 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, three hours; discussion, one hour. Close look at history of popular music documentaries and goals, methods, and challenges of making them. Consideration of what makes for successful (or unsuccessful) music documentaries. Viewed through very specific focus of story and storytelling. Students may develop their own documentary project as part of coursework. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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