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Dibs Fall 2026

SPAN 44

Latin American Cultures

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Required of majors. Lectures taught in English; discussion sections taught in either Spanish or English. Highlights of civilization of Spanish America, with emphasis on artistic, economic, social, and historical development as background for upper-division courses. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.79
n = 1,045 · 8 terms · ± 0.017
A range
87%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
1%
83% of those passed
D / F / W
1.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
96 of 100
96% full
 fills TR 5:00pm-6:50pm Arroyo Calderon, P
3.83n=923 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 23821F
  • 25322F
  • 24223F
  • 14624F
  • 12625S
Enrolment by term: 21F 238, 22F 253, 23F 242, 24F 146, 25S 126
Peak 253 Most recent 126 in 25S 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 675 · 63.6%
  • A 171 · 16.1%
  • A- 63 · 5.9%
  • B+ 34 · 3.2%
  • B 47 · 4.4%
  • B- 11 · 1.0%
  • C+ 11 · 1.0%
  • C 7 · 0.7%
  • C- 8 · 0.8%
  • D+ 3 · 0.3%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • D- 3 · 0.3%
  • F 11 · 1.0%
  • P 10 · 0.9%
  • NP 2 · 0.2%
  • I 3 · 0.3%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
ARROYO CALDERON, PATRICIA 3.83 3.83 923 7 90%
VAN DELDEN, MAARTEN H 3.50 3.47 122 1 61%

“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.

By term