LBR STD 168
Law and Politics of Immigration: Migrants and Inevitable Evolution of Collective and Individual Rights
Grades
3.97
Average grade awarded in LBR STD 168. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
99%
of the 129 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 129 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.91 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 128 · 99.2%
- F 1 · 0.8%
- P 1 of 130
Percentages are of the 129 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEWMAN, CHRIS reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 3.97 | 129 | 3 | 99% | very light | 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
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. With immigration and rights of migrants at center of current political and legal debates throughout world, study offers critical introduction to inevitable evolution of law and policy resulting from—and in reaction to—movement of immigrants. Endows students with wide array of analytical tools with which to engage current political debates about immigration. Using historical and modern texts, while incorporating elements of art, popular culture, and storytelling, study encourages discussion, debate, and analysis about immigrants’ role in development of rights and modern political debates about immigration. Exploration of themes of inclusion, exclusion, integration, and multiculturalism. Students describe shortcomings of status-quo policies while also imaging and prescribing arguments about where law can and should go. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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