ECON 182A
U.S. Economic History: From Colonial Times to the Civil War
Grades
3.57
Average grade awarded in ECON 182A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
65%
of the 143 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 143 grades over 2 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 2 terms ran 3.42 to 3.65.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 0.7%
- A 41 · 28.7%
- A- 51 · 35.7%
- B+ 26 · 18.2%
- B 14 · 9.8%
- B- 6 · 4.2%
- C+ 4 · 2.8%
- P 1 of 145
- I 1 of 145
Percentages are of the 143 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COSTA, DORA LUISA reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.57 | 143 | 2 | 65% | - | 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; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 11. Enforced corequisite: course 182AL. Examination of the development of the U.S. economy up to and including the Civil War. Focus on using economic models and numbers to understand what drove the evolution of the economy, why structural changes occurred, and why there was persistence. While the past persists for a long time in the form of people and institutions, there are periods of dramatic change brought on by technological change and by war. Study of the past, with its very different institutions, to inform the present. For example, there was no U.S. currency until the Civil War. Each bank printed its own notes and each state had different banking regulations. Investigation of how the system worked, whether it was effective in allocating capital, and how stability depended on banking regulations. P/NP or letter grading.
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