Introductory Design Studio

Grades

3.78

Average grade awarded in ARCH&UD 411. 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 0.054.

The registrar's own records: 118 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.72 to 3.82.

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 411 ↗

In Falls

Ran in 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.

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 02 Sep 02:40: the oldest of these 4 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Stu 1 MWF 2:00pm-5:50pm

  Closed

  Brooks, M.

  3.79

  this instructor · 10 grades · small sample

  15 of 15 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.

  majors only limited by major: Master of Architecture I Majors: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Stu 2 MWF 2:00pm-6:00pm

  Open

  Freyinger, C.P.

  3.80

  this instructor · 11 grades · small sample

  3 seats left. 12 of 15 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.

  majors only limited by major: Master of Architecture I Majors: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Stu 3 MWF 2:00pm-6:00pm

  Open

  Sharif, M.

  3.87

  this instructor · 11 grades · small sample

  9 seats left. 6 of 15 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.

  majors only limited by major: Master of Architecture I Majors: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held
• Stu 4 MWF 2:00pm-6:00pm

  Open

  Kuo, M.

  3.68

  this instructor · 32 grades

  13 seats left. 2 of 15 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.

  majors only limited by major: Master of Architecture I Majors: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 11 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 11 in Fall 2024. 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 4 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.