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NEUROSC 17

Science of Music

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. General overview of basic principles of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and psychoacoustics to relation of music perception. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.66
n = 300 · 4 terms · ± 0.031
A range
75%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.7%
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.

  • 9422S
  • 9323S
  • 8024S
  • 4725S
Enrolment by term: 22S 94, 23S 93, 24S 80, 25S 47
Peak 94 Most recent 47 in 25S 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 37 · 11.8%
  • A 122 · 38.9%
  • A- 67 · 21.3%
  • B+ 35 · 11.1%
  • B 17 · 5.4%
  • B- 12 · 3.8%
  • C+ 2 · 0.6%
  • C 5 · 1.6%
  • C- 1 · 0.3%
  • D 2 · 0.6%
  • P 10 · 3.2%
  • S 1 · 0.3%
  • I 3 · 1.0%

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
TRAMO, MARK J 3.67 3.67 300 4 75%

“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