INF STD 434
Archival Use and Users
Lecture.
Fall 2025: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in INF STD 434. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 80 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 80 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.67 to 3.93.
Historical grades for SOLIS, GABRIEL DANIEL, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 38 · 86.4%
- A 2 · 4.5%
- A- 1 · 2.3%
- B+ 1 · 2.3%
- B- 1 · 2.3%
- F 1 · 2.3%
Percentages are of the 44 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOLIS, GABRIEL DANIEL reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 44 | 2 | 93% | - | Closed by the department |
| CASWELL, MICHELLE reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.91 | 23 | 1 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| CARBONE, KATHY MICHELLE reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.92 | 13 · | 1 | 92% | - | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before INF STD 434. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for INF STD 434 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 4 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 and one half hours. Requisite: course 431. Examination of who uses archives and why, with ultimate goal of creating ways to better understand and meet needs of these users as well as engage new audiences in archival use. While archivists have traditionally conceived of their users as academic researchers, more thorough investigation expands this conception of users to include genealogists, artists, K-12 students and educators, families of victims of human rights abuse, community members, and members of general public. Methods for studying users, ways to conduct outreach to target user groups, and ways in which archivists can engage general public. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 R 10:00am-1:50pmClosed by the department3.86predicted, this instructor · 44 grades
32 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 32 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 32 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking INF STD 434 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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.
Lec 1 · Solis, G.D. · 32 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 32 seats.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
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.