ART HIS 185
Undergraduate Seminar
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 3 sections. 1 section is open. The oldest of these readings was 50 minutes ago.
Grades
3.77
Average grade awarded in ART HIS 185. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
87%
of the 334 letter grades
D, F or W
1.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
7 of 7 students passed
The registrar's own records: 334 grades over 12 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 12 terms ran 3.63 to 3.94.
Historical grades for BAKER, GEORGE THOMAS, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 8.3%
- A 15 · 62.5%
- A- 7 · 29.2%
Percentages are of the 24 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HARWELL, GREGORY TODD reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.71 | 97 | 8 | 84% | very light | not teaching it |
| SCHNELLER, DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.88 | 30 | 2 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| ROSENBLUM, BETH T reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.51 | 30 | 2 | 67% | - | not teaching it |
| MEDVEDEV, NATASHA reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.93 | 29 | 2 | 97% | light | not teaching it |
| LEE, HUI-SHU reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.72 | 29 | 3 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| BAKER, GEORGE THOMAS reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.91 | 24 | 2 | 100% | - | Open, 4 seats left |
| NAIR, STELLA ELISE reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 4.00 | 22 | 2 | 100% | heavy | not teaching it |
| COHEN, MEREDITH MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.84 | 22 | 2 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| BALAFREJ, LAMIA reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.79 | 14 · | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| BARBER, TIFFANY E reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.23 | 14 · | 1 | 64% | - | not teaching it |
| CHOWDHURY, ZIRWAT reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 4.00 | 12 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| DACKERMAN, SUSAN reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.83 | 11 · | 1 | 91% | - | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
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
Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of selected aspects of art history through readings, discussion, research papers, and oral presentations. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 1. The restriction reading needs rechecking.
Sem 1 R 2:00pm-3:50pmCancelledNo instructors
3.76predicted, all instructors · 334 gradesno enrollment count published -
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 2. The restriction reading needs rechecking.
Sem 2 T 1:00pm-2:50pmClosed3.76predicted, all instructors · 334 grades10 of 10 · 3 over enrolled high risk
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 3. The restriction reading needs rechecking.
Sem 3 M 3:00pm-5:50pmOpen3.85predicted, this instructor · 24 grades4 seats left. 11 of 15 enrolled medium risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 15 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 14 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ART HIS 185 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 3 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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.
Sem 1 · No instructors · -
Freed 7 seats over about 1 month
Sem 2 · Gerstel, S.E. · 10 of 10 · 3 over enrolled
Unchanged over about 2 months
Both readings say 10 of 10.
Sem 3 · Baker, G.T. · 11 of 15 enrolled
Filled by 4 over about 2 months
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.