ARCH&UD 30
Introduction to Architectural Studies
Grades
3.82
Average grade awarded in ARCH&UD 30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 903 letter grades
D, F or W
1.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 903 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 3.66 to 3.88.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 261 · 28.9%
- A 433 · 48.0%
- A- 107 · 11.8%
- B+ 45 · 5.0%
- B 26 · 2.9%
- B- 9 · 1.0%
- C+ 5 · 0.6%
- C 5 · 0.6%
- C- 1 · 0.1%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 2 · 0.2%
- F 8 · 0.9%
- P 24 of 932
- I 3 of 932
- NR 2 of 932
Percentages are of the 903 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSMAN, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.82 | 903 | 5 | 89% | average | 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
- 2 exams, said by 8 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 papers, said by 11 reviewers
- 1 presentation, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 42 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Exploration of role of built environment in social, cultural, and political life: how buildings are constructed, what they mean, effects they have on world, and ways they imagine new futures and shape private and public life. Focus on series of contemporary case studies for what each reveals about new possibilities for shaping world in which we live, with emphasis on how architecture extends to cities, roads, books, and films. Consideration of historical context and cultural genealogy of particular buildings and environments, material and economic conditions of building, and more. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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