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Dibs Fall 2026

MSC IND 29

Music Documentary in History and Practice

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Close look at history of popular music documentaries and goals, methods, and challenges of making them. Consideration of what makes for successful (or unsuccessful) music documentaries. Viewed through very specific focus of story and storytelling. Students may develop their own documentary project as part of coursework. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.89
n = 483 · 4 terms · ± 0.025
A range
93%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.4%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 11622W
  • 12723W
  • 12624S
  • 12825W
Enrolment by term: 22W 116, 23W 127, 24S 126, 25W 128
Peak 128 Most recent 128 in 25W 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 287 · 57.6%
  • A 133 · 26.7%
  • A- 30 · 6.0%
  • B+ 12 · 2.4%
  • B 8 · 1.6%
  • B- 5 · 1.0%
  • C+ 1 · 0.2%
  • C 3 · 0.6%
  • C- 2 · 0.4%
  • F 2 · 0.4%
  • P 12 · 2.4%
  • I 3 · 0.6%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
LEAF, DAVID A 3.89 3.89 483 4 93%

“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.

By term