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 ↗

What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for ARCH&UD 289, 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.

In Springs

Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.

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 Spring 2027

Seat counts as of 30 Aug 03:05: the oldest of these 17 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

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  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.

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• Lec 2 Time TBA

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  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.

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• Lec 3 Time TBA

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  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.

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• Lec 4 Time TBA

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  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.

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• Lec 5 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 6 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 7 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 8 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 9 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 10 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 11 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 80 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 81 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 82 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 83 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 84 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 85 Time TBA

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  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.

  not checked yet

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 Spring 2027

Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet. A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and anything you watch every hour.