M E STD M50A
First Civilizations
Also listed as AN N EA M50A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.30
Average grade awarded in M E STD M50A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
52%
of the 153 letter grades
D, F or W
5.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 153 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.05 to 3.57.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 21 · 13.7%
- A 36 · 23.5%
- A- 22 · 14.4%
- B+ 18 · 11.8%
- B 24 · 15.7%
- B- 13 · 8.5%
- C+ 3 · 2.0%
- C 5 · 3.3%
- C- 3 · 2.0%
- D+ 2 · 1.3%
- D 3 · 2.0%
- D- 1 · 0.7%
- F 2 · 1.3%
- P 1 of 156
- I 1 of 156
- DR 1 of 156
Percentages are of the 153 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURKE, AARON ALEXANDER reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.30 | 153 | 4 | 52% | 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.
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.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 2 reviewers
- No quizzes, said by 1 reviewer
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 4 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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 Ancient Near East M50A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of great civilizations of ancient Near East--Egypt, Israel, and Mesopotamia--with attention to emergence of writing, monotheism, and urban societies. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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