LBR STD 96W
Writing and Research for Labor Studies
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.83
Average grade awarded in LBR STD 96W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 19 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 19 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+ 4 · 21.1%
- A 10 · 52.6%
- A- 3 · 15.8%
- B 1 · 5.3%
- B- 1 · 5.3%
Percentages are of the 19 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAFFNEY, LORETTA M reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.83 | 19 · | 1 | 89% | - | 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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before LBR STD 96W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LBR STD 96W in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
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, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Introduction to elements of effective academic writing and opportunity to practice this writing in a collaborative workshop environment. Student confidence is built in their own abilities to communicate academic research and writing to non-academic and activist audiences, and to engage with other students and scholars in labor studies. Students learn the fundamentals of effective academic research and writing, and have the opportunity to use research to engage with a problem or issue in labor and community organizing. Through researching and writing about current issues in labor studies, students develop a deeper understanding of the relationships between their education and society at large and how they, as college graduates, can transform the nature of work. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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