LGBTQS M114
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
Also listed as GENDER M114: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.80
Average grade awarded in LGBTQS M114. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
87%
of the 1,019 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
93% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,019 grades over 11 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.71 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 515 · 50.5%
- A 288 · 28.3%
- A- 87 · 8.5%
- B+ 44 · 4.3%
- B 40 · 3.9%
- B- 13 · 1.3%
- C+ 7 · 0.7%
- C 5 · 0.5%
- C- 3 · 0.3%
- D+ 2 · 0.2%
- D 2 · 0.2%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 12 · 1.2%
- P 28 of 1,055
- NP 2 of 1,055
- I 5 of 1,055
- DR 1 of 1,055
Percentages are of the 1,019 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, MICHAEL ALLEN reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.80 | 1,007 | 10 | 87% | very light | not teaching it |
| GONE, PATTY reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.89 | 12 · | 1 | 92% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- No exams, 4 mentions in past reviews
- 2 papers, 7 mentions in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Projects mentioned, no number given, 3 mentions in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 22 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Springs
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably.
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
(Same as Gender Studies M114.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to history, politics, culture, and scientific study of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered, and queer people; examination of sexuality and gender as categories for investigation; interdisciplinary theories and research on minority sexualities and genders. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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