Special Topics in Architecture and Urban Design

Grades

3.77

Average grade awarded in ARCH&UD 289. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.015.

The registrar's own records: 1,744 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.67 to 3.92.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for ARCH&UD 289 ↗

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

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of 29 Aug 00:40: the oldest of these 15 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 Time TBA

  Open

  An unnamed TA

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

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• Lec 2 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  24 seats left. 0 of 24 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 3 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  24 seats left. 0 of 24 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 4 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  24 seats left. 0 of 24 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 5 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  24 seats left. 0 of 24 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 6 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 7 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 8 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 9 Time TBA

  Closed by the department

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  no enrollment count published no history i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 80 Time TBA

  Open

  An unnamed TA

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  30 seats left. 0 of 30 enrolled low risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 81 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 82 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 83 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  20 seats left. 0 of 20 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 84 Time TBA

  Open

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Lec 85 Time TBA

  Closed by the department

  No instructors

  3.77

  course average · 1,744 grades

  no enrollment count published no history i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 14 and 25 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 16 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 15 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.