UCLA ARCH&UD 401: Advanced Topics Studio

Studio.

Fall 2026: 10 sections. 9 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was 14 hours ago.

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Grades

3.78

Average grade awarded in ARCH&UD 401. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

84%

of the 826 letter grades

D, F or W

0.1%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 826 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.66 to 3.93.

Grade distribution by professor

Historical grades for DENARI, NEIL MARTIN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

A+ 10 · 18.2%
A 31 · 56.4%
A- 13 · 23.6%
B+ 1 · 1.8%
I 1 of 56

Percentages are of the 55 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor	Predicted GPA	Raw	n	Terms	A range	Workload	Fall 2026
MICHELON, LAURE HELENE reviews ↗	3.73	3.72	198	10	83%	-	not teaching it
FEGHALI, YARA reviews ↗	3.84	3.84	157	7	90%	-	not teaching it
VAN LEUWEN-HALL, TUCKER HULBERT reviews ↗	3.77	3.77	153	8	83%	-	not teaching it
DENHAMER, LIAM CLAYTON reviews ↗	3.74	3.73	108	5	79%	-	not teaching it
INABA, JEFFREY reviews ↗	3.88	3.90	84	6	92%	-	not teaching it
SANDMEIER, NATASHA SIMONE reviews ↗	3.69	3.67	77	5	66%	-	Open, 1 seat left
DENARI, NEIL MARTIN reviews ↗	3.88	3.92	55	5	98%	-	Open, 14 seats left
HULJICH, GEORGINA reviews ↗	3.68	3.64	44	4	64%	-	Open, 14 seats left
OZEL, GUVENC reviews ↗	3.71	3.68	33	3	94%	-	Open, 3 seats left
DALY, KEVIN M reviews ↗	3.79	3.80	24	2	92%	-	not teaching it
FREYINGER, CLAUS BENJAMIN P reviews ↗	3.76	3.74	23	2	78%	-	Open, 5 seats left
CONWAY, MATTHEW J reviews ↗	3.84	3.89	21	1	100%	-	not teaching it
KUO, MAX reviews ↗	3.75	3.72	21	2	81%	-	not teaching it
MIRZAEIAN, NARINEH reviews ↗	3.75	3.72	21	2	81%	-	not teaching it
ROBERGE, HEATHER LYNN reviews ↗	3.77	3.77	20	2	80%	-	not teaching it
LYNN, GREGORY STEWART reviews ↗	3.81	3.84	17 ·	1	100%	-	not teaching it
KOERNER-AL-RAWI, JULIA reviews ↗	3.74	3.69	14 ·	1	79%	-	not teaching it
IBANEZ, MARIANA reviews ↗	3.71	3.60	12 ·	1	50%	-	not teaching it
RICCIARDI, GARRETT reviews ↗	3.81	3.85	11 ·	1	91%	-	not teaching it
BROOKS, MIROSLAVA reviews ↗	3.79	3.80	11 ·	1	91%	-	not teaching it
AYATA, AHMET KUTAN reviews ↗	3.84	3.94	11 ·	1	91%	-	not teaching it
SHARIF, MOHAMED reviews ↗	3.85	3.97	10 ·	1	100%	-	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.

Reviews for ARCH&UD 401

Workload and assignments

Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.

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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

Studio, 12 hours; outside study, six hours. Preparation: satisfactory completion of intermediate-level studios (courses 412, 413, 414) or M.Arch. II student. Students may choose (through lottery) from several different projects focusing on special topics in architectural and urban design to be offered by faculty members. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of 17 Oct 02:32: the oldest of these 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Section
Stu 1
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
14 seats left.

11 of 25 enrolled

Instructor

Denari, N.M.

3.88
Predicted GPA
Historical records for DENARI, NEIL MARTIN; 55 letter grades

Seat risk
low risk

Class: Master of Architecture I Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 1 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 2
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
14 seats left.

11 of 25 enrolled

Instructor

Huljich, G.

3.68
Predicted GPA
Historical records for HULJICH, GEORGINA; 44 letter grades

Seat risk
low risk

Class: Master of Architecture I Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 2 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 3
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
5 seats left.

10 of 15 enrolled

Instructor

Walker, E.

3.78
Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 826 letter grades

Seat risk
medium risk

Class: Master of Architecture I Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 3 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 4
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
5 seats left.

10 of 15 enrolled

Instructor

Freyinger, C.P.

3.76
Predicted GPA
Historical records for FREYINGER, CLAUS BENJAMIN P; 23 letter grades

Seat risk
medium risk

Class: Master of Architecture I Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 25 hours ago. Stu 4
Section
Stu 5
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
1 seat left.

4 of 5 enrolled

Instructor

Sandmeier, N.S.

3.69
Predicted GPA
Historical records for SANDMEIER, NATASHA SIMONE; 77 letter grades

Seat risk
high risk

Class: Master of Architecture I Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 5 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 6
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
3 seats left.

5 of 8 enrolled

Instructor

Ozel, G.

3.71
Predicted GPA
Historical records for OZEL, GUVENC; 33 letter grades

Seat risk
high risk

Class: Master of Architecture I Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 6 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 80
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
5 seats left.

10 of 15 enrolled

Instructor

Sandmeier, N.S.

3.69
Predicted GPA
Historical records for SANDMEIER, NATASHA SIMONE; 77 letter grades

Seat risk
medium risk

Class: Architecture and Urban Design Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 80 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 81
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
11 seats left.

4 of 15 enrolled

Instructor

Ozel, G.

3.71
Predicted GPA
Historical records for OZEL, GUVENC; 33 letter grades

Seat risk
medium risk

Class: Architecture and Urban Design Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 81 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 82
Time TBA

Seats
Cancelled
no enrollment count published

Instructor

No instructors

3.78
Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 826 letter grades

Seat risk
-

Class: Architecture and Urban Design Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: about 1 month ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 82 Restriction text was last read about 1 month ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details
Section
Stu 83
MR 12:30pm-6:30pm

Seats
Open
1 seat left.

1 of 2 enrolled

Instructor

Denari, N.M.

3.88
Predicted GPA
Historical records for DENARI, NEIL MARTIN; 55 letter grades

Seat risk
high risk

Class: Architecture and Urban Design Majors Registrar's Restrictions cell. Oldest reading: 5 days ago. This restriction reading needs rechecking. Stu 83 Restriction text was last read 5 days ago. This reading is older than the usual refresh window. Open section details

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 19 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 12 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

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Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 10 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

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.

Stu 1 · Denari, N.M. · 11 of 25 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 8.

11 of 25 · 14 left

17 Aug 15:0716 Sep 20:4917 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 633 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 465 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 20 Sep, which is the other 819 of 1452 plotted.

Stu 2 · Huljich, G. · 11 of 25 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 10.

11 of 25 · 14 left

17 Aug 15:0716 Sep 20:4917 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 633 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 465 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 20 Sep, which is the other 819 of 1452 plotted.

Stu 3 · Walker, E. · 10 of 15 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 10.

10 of 15 · 5 left

17 Aug 15:0716 Sep 20:4917 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 633 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 465 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 20 Sep, which is the other 819 of 1452 plotted.

Stu 4 · Freyinger, C.P. · 10 of 15 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 10.

10 of 15 · 5 left

29 Aug 01:4022 Sep 14:0617 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 633 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 465 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 20 Sep, which is the other 545 of 1178 plotted.

Stu 5 · Sandmeier, N.S. · 4 of 5 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 21 days before that, filled by 4.

4 of 5 · 1 left

25 Sep 22:526 Oct 12:4217 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 133 of the 509 hours plotted, 26%. No reading was recorded in 376 hours.

Stu 6 · Ozel, G. · 5 of 8 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 21 days before that, filled by 5.

5 of 8 · 3 left

25 Sep 22:526 Oct 12:4217 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 133 of the 509 hours plotted, 26%. No reading was recorded in 376 hours.

Stu 80 · Sandmeier, N.S. · 10 of 15 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 10.

10 of 15 · 5 left

17 Aug 15:0716 Sep 20:4917 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 633 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 465 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 20 Sep, which is the other 819 of 1452 plotted.

Stu 81 · Ozel, G. · 4 of 15 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 4.

4 of 15 · 11 left

17 Aug 15:0716 Sep 20:4917 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 633 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 465 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 20 Sep, which is the other 819 of 1452 plotted.

Stu 82 · No instructors · -

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 29 days before that, same seat count, but the status went open to cancelled.

0 of 20

Both readings say 0 enrolled, and the cap stopped being published.

17 Aug 15:071 Sep 03:0415 Sep 15:02 · 14 hours ago

697 hours plotted. dibs took 2 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.

Stu 83 · Denari, N.M. · 1 of 2 enrolled

Nothing read since 17 Oct, 14 hours ago. Over the 21 days before that, filled by 1.

1 of 2 · 1 left

0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.

25 Sep 22:526 Oct 12:4217 Oct 02:32 · 14 hours ago

Checked 133 of the 509 hours plotted, 26%. No reading was recorded in 376 hours.

How readings and alerts work

Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.

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.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.