RELIGN 11
Religion in Los Angeles
Grades
3.69
Average grade awarded in RELIGN 11. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
79%
of the 434 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
91% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 434 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.57 to 3.75.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 150 · 34.6%
- A 123 · 28.3%
- A- 72 · 16.6%
- B+ 25 · 5.8%
- B 30 · 6.9%
- B- 15 · 3.5%
- C+ 10 · 2.3%
- C 2 · 0.5%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- D+ 1 · 0.2%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- F 4 · 0.9%
- P 20 of 462
- NP 2 of 462
- I 6 of 462
Percentages are of the 434 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH, SIMON JONATHAN reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.69 | 434 | 5 | 79% | very 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 28 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
Lecture, four hours. Introduction to varieties of religious experience in Los Angeles and its environs. Presentations, required readings, and (where possible) site visits to examine selected faiths and spiritual practices throughout Southern California and provide deeper understanding of myriad ways that sacred is made manifest and encountered. Foundational academic orientations within study of religion (anthropological, historical, psychological, sociological, etc.) used as framework to examine and interpret almost unparalleled religious diversity of City of Angels. Recognizing that spiritual traditions are crucial reflection of region's ever-changing demographics, emphasis on role of ethnicity, gender, nationality, and race in shaping of religious landscape. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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