ELTS 30
The Modern View of Nature: Early Modern Europe to Today
Grades
3.97
Average grade awarded in ELTS 30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
100%
of the 41 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: 41 grades over 1 term, 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 17 · 41.5%
- A 20 · 48.8%
- A- 4 · 9.8%
Percentages are of the 41 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COONEY, ERIN JOY reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.97 | 41 | 1 | 100% | 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.
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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
- 4 papers, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ELTS 30 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Investigation of the genealogy of the modern view of nature from early European modernity (circa 1500 CE) to the present. Today, it is common to think of human culture as an entity separate from nature, with the prevailing belief that nature serves merely as a backdrop to the unfolding drama of human history. In the modern view of nature, rational, superior humans are seen as the masters of an inert, inferior nature. Study traces how the modern view of nature originated and evolved in early modern Europe during the era of European colonialism, an institution which imposed systems of plantation capitalism throughout the world, from Africa to the Caribbean, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. Investigation of how the nature/culture divide became a defining part of global capitalism, a totalizing framework that organizes the relationship between those deemed human and the rest of nature. Examination also of how various contemporary artists and writers seek to challenge the widespread assumptions underlying the modern view of nature by offering examples of how communities are embedded in the ecologies they inhabit. P/NP or letter grading.
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