MSC IND 55
Legends of Songwriting: Their Life in Music
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.81
Average grade awarded in MSC IND 55. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 123 letter grades
D, F or W
2.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
5 of 5 students passed
The registrar's own records: 123 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
Every one of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.66 to 3.90.
Historical grades for LEAF, DAVID A, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 87 · 70.7%
- A 21 · 17.1%
- A- 3 · 2.4%
- B+ 3 · 2.4%
- B 3 · 2.4%
- B- 1 · 0.8%
- C 2 · 1.6%
- F 3 · 2.4%
- P 5 of 128
Percentages are of the 123 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEAF, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.81 | 123 | 4 | 90% | average | Open, 3 seats left |
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 read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 6 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. With special focus on songwriting renaissance of rock era, examination of work of important songwriters of post-World War II generation (circa 1952-1994) and those they have influenced. Practical industry guidance from current and noteworthy practitioners. Coverage of songwriting, arrangement and record production, music publishing, and record business in 20th and 21st centuries. Guest music industry professionals demonstrate individual creative processes and discuss their paths to songwriting and their place in world of music. Course is not workshop or tutorial on how to write songs. (See course 112.) P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 Time TBAOpen3.81predicted, this instructor · 123 grades
3 seats left. 277 of 280 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, 2 open: Dis 1A, F 10:00am-10:50am, and Dis 1C, F 12:00pm-12:50pm.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Leaf, D.A. · 277 of 280 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 3 seats.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
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