PORTGSE 46
Brazil and Portuguese-Speaking World
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in PORTGSE 46. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 264 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
6 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 264 grades over 6 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 6 terms ran 3.73 to 3.98.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 97 · 36.7%
- A 133 · 50.4%
- A- 17 · 6.4%
- B+ 6 · 2.3%
- B 5 · 1.9%
- B- 2 · 0.8%
- C 1 · 0.4%
- C- 1 · 0.4%
- D+ 1 · 0.4%
- F 1 · 0.4%
- P 6 of 272
- NP 2 of 272
Percentages are of the 264 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARTINS LINO, PATRICIA SOFIA reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.81 | 92 | 2 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| FALCE-ROBINSON, JULIET A reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 64 | 2 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| PASSOS, JOSE LUIZ ITHAMAR reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.98 | 56 | 1 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| PASSOS, JOSE LUIZ reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.98 | 52 | 1 | 100% | - | 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
- No exams, said by 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 12 reviewers
- 5 problem sets, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 project, said by 3 reviewers
Read from 48 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
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Taught in English. Topical analysis of cultural history of Brazil in context of Portuguese-speaking world, with emphasis on comparative, trans-Atlantic relations, social development, and artistic manifestations. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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