GEOG 8
Geographies of Sustainability and Unsustainability
Grades
3.62
Average grade awarded in GEOG 8. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 109 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
10 of 10 students passed
The registrar's own records: 109 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 3.54 to 3.79.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 3.7%
- A 51 · 46.8%
- A- 25 · 22.9%
- B+ 12 · 11.0%
- B 11 · 10.1%
- B- 2 · 1.8%
- C 1 · 0.9%
- C- 1 · 0.9%
- F 2 · 1.8%
- P 10 of 121
- I 2 of 121
Percentages are of the 109 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAIER, LIEBA BERNICE reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.62 | 109 | 2 | 73% | 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
- 1 exam, said by 1 reviewer
- 5 papers, 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Exploration from a geographical perspective of how sustainability can be understood. Consideration of why the organization of different kinds of landscapes encourages, fosters, enables, and stymies building of sustainable relationships among people, land, waterways, flora, and fauna. While readings and discussions reference scientific studies, focus is on exploring social, historical, cultural, and political-economic dimensions of environmental problems and solutions. Examination of cultural ideas about human environment interaction and questions of power, politics, history, and inequality asking how they contribute to the problems that scientists measure and discuss. Selective focus on those issues of sustainability and unsustainability that are most central to everyday lives in Los Angeles, including questions of food, water, waste, and urban sustainability more generally. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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