SPAN 135
Topics in Early Modern Studies: Complexities and Paradoxes of Women in the Colonial World
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in SPAN 135. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 367 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 367 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.77 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 140 · 38.1%
- A 155 · 42.2%
- A- 51 · 13.9%
- B+ 12 · 3.3%
- B 6 · 1.6%
- B- 2 · 0.5%
- C 1 · 0.3%
- P 1 of 372
- I 4 of 372
Percentages are of the 367 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, JIMENA NELIDA reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.85 | 192 | 8 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| PATINO LOIRA, JAVIER reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 175 | 5 | 98% | average | 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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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before SPAN 135. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for SPAN 135 in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in 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, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of 16th and 17th centuries, with focus on early modern period of Spain and Spanish America. Possible topics include Spanish colonization and indigenous responses, transatlantic literary and visual baroque, race and religion in construction of early modern nation, transatlantic fictions, early modern identities and theatrical representations, literature and historiography, transatlantic poetics and poetry. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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