SOCIOL 110
Comparative and Historical Methods
Grades
3.36
Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 110. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
56%
of the 1,227 letter grades
D, F or W
4.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
13 of 16 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,227 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 3.12 to 3.70.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 42 · 3.4%
- A 448 · 36.5%
- A- 193 · 15.7%
- B+ 172 · 14.0%
- B 156 · 12.7%
- B- 62 · 5.1%
- C+ 48 · 3.9%
- C 42 · 3.4%
- C- 15 · 1.2%
- D+ 9 · 0.7%
- D 8 · 0.7%
- D- 4 · 0.3%
- F 28 · 2.3%
- P 13 of 1,261
- NP 3 of 1,261
- I 14 of 1,261
- DR 4 of 1,261
Percentages are of the 1,227 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEER, ISAAC DAVID FLIGSTEIN reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.37 | 1,082 | 7 | 56% | light | not teaching it |
| COLLETT, JESSICA LYN reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.46 | 270 | 2 | 64% | - | 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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In Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably.
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, three hours; discussion, one hour. Recommended requisite: course 101. Introduction to range of comparative and historical methods alongside broader questions and issues in this area of sociology. Students learn about using theories to analyze real-world cases; making comparisons between societies and other social units; developing sociological explanations for historical events; and generalizing about social patterns and changes over time. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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