GEOG 187
Research and Writing in Human Geography
Grades
3.71
Average grade awarded in GEOG 187. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 48 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 48 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 3.65 to 3.76.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 14.6%
- A 24 · 50.0%
- A- 4 · 8.3%
- B+ 5 · 10.4%
- B 5 · 10.4%
- B- 2 · 4.2%
- C+ 1 · 2.1%
- I 2 of 50
Percentages are of the 48 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAY, KELLY ANN reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.76 | 27 | 1 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| HEITZ, KAILY A reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.65 | 21 | 1 | 67% | - | 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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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, three hours. Limited to seniors. Writing and research are two key aspects of what human geographers do. Students improve writing through proposing and conducting self-directed research project. Students should come with idea of topic of interest. Students learn process of doing geography research, including how to ask good research questions, how to search for relevant sources, how to construct argument, how to build literature review, and how to properly cite and incorporate academic sources. Culminating final paper on topic of choice. Weekly class workshops offer opportunity to exchange work with peers, giving useful feedback and opportunity to learn how to offer feedback and how to incorporate feedback into editing their work. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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