DIS STD 1
Construction of (Dis)ability and Ableism in U.S.
Grades
3.85
Average grade awarded in DIS STD 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 134 letter grades
D, F or W
2.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
6 of 7 students passed
The registrar's own records: 134 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.37 to 3.97.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 88 · 65.7%
- A 29 · 21.6%
- A- 9 · 6.7%
- B+ 2 · 1.5%
- B- 2 · 1.5%
- C 1 · 0.7%
- D 1 · 0.7%
- F 2 · 1.5%
- P 6 of 142
- NP 1 of 142
- I 1 of 142
Percentages are of the 134 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOLONE, CAITLIN JEAN reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.85 | 134 | 3 | 94% | - | 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 read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 2 reviews 26 days ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for DIS STD 1 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Examination of ways in which certain bodies and minds have been categorized, disabled, conceived of, oppressed, and liberated in U.S. over time. Using intersectional lens, exploration of origins of American eugenics movement, social construction of normalcy and (dis)ability, and ableism in its many forms (e.g., individual, legal, medical, cultural, financial). Students learn how to apply critical disability studies framework to evaluate relationships between race, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation, income, and disability in relation to disablement and ableism. Covers key topics and theoretical frameworks in disability studies to give students foundational and conceptual knowledge needed to analyze social, political, and cultural issues from critical disability studies perspectives. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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