SOCIOL 101
Development of Sociological Theory
Grades
3.11
Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 101. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
37%
of the 3,011 letter grades
D, F or W
4.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
72% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 3,011 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 2.77 to 3.38.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 112 · 3.7%
- A 567 · 18.8%
- A- 449 · 14.9%
- B+ 413 · 13.7%
- B 621 · 20.6%
- B- 287 · 9.5%
- C+ 189 · 6.3%
- C 202 · 6.7%
- C- 41 · 1.4%
- D+ 39 · 1.3%
- D 29 · 1.0%
- D- 13 · 0.4%
- F 49 · 1.6%
- P 38 of 3,092
- NP 15 of 3,092
- S 1 of 3,092
- I 23 of 3,092
- DR 4 of 3,092
Percentages are of the 3,011 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIGMON, JONATHAN P reviews ↗ | 3.18 | 3.18 | 847 | 8 | 43% | light | not teaching it |
| YERITSIAN, GARY reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 673 | 6 | 37% | light | not teaching it |
| AYALA, CÉSAR J reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 3.06 | 594 | 6 | 36% | heavy | not teaching it |
| JEPSON, MARK C reviews ↗ | 2.94 | 2.94 | 546 | 3 | 25% | average | not teaching it |
| COLLETT, JESSICA LYN reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.45 | 140 | 1 | 62% | - | not teaching it |
| SPEER, ISAAC DAVID FLIGSTEIN reviews ↗ | 3.00 | 2.98 | 119 | 1 | 31% | light | not teaching it |
| ROSSI, GIOVANNI reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.20 | 92 | 2 | 47% | - | 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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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Comparative survey of basic concepts and theories in sociology from 1850 to 1920. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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