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Dibs Fall 2026

MUSC 15

Art of Listening

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Acquisition of listening skills through direct interaction with live performance, performers, and composers. Relationship of listening to theoretical, analytical, historical, and cultural frameworks. Music as aesthetic experience and cultural practice. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.92
n = 1,141 · 4 terms · ± 0.016
A range
96%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
96% of those passed
D / F / W
0.6%
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.

  • 25622W
  • 29423W
  • 30524W
  • 30925W
Enrolment by term: 22W 256, 23W 294, 24W 305, 25W 309
Peak 309 Most recent 309 in 25W 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 837 · 71.9%
  • A 208 · 17.9%
  • A- 47 · 4.0%
  • B+ 14 · 1.2%
  • B 12 · 1.0%
  • B- 5 · 0.4%
  • C+ 3 · 0.3%
  • C 5 · 0.4%
  • C- 3 · 0.3%
  • D- 2 · 0.2%
  • F 5 · 0.4%
  • P 22 · 1.9%
  • NP 1 · 0.1%

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
RICHMAN, WENDY MICHELLE 3.92 3.92 1,141 4 96%

“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