SPAN 150
Topics in Contemporary Studies
Grades
3.74
Average grade awarded in SPAN 150. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 397 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
3 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 397 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 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 3.31 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 108 · 27.2%
- A 181 · 45.6%
- A- 37 · 9.3%
- B+ 23 · 5.8%
- B 21 · 5.3%
- B- 7 · 1.8%
- C+ 8 · 2.0%
- C 6 · 1.5%
- C- 2 · 0.5%
- D+ 1 · 0.3%
- F 3 · 0.8%
- P 3 of 403
- NP 1 of 403
- I 2 of 403
Percentages are of the 397 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOBIN, STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.82 | 112 | 5 | 85% | light | not teaching it |
| CORTINEZ, VERONICA reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.59 | 74 | 4 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| MARTURANO, JORGE reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.78 | 52 | 2 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| MIDDLETON, MCKENNA ROSE reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.88 | 45 | 2 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| ARROYO CALDERON, PATRICIA reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.91 | 30 | 1 | 93% | average | not teaching it |
| CALDERON, HECTOR V reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.31 | 27 | 1 | 56% | light | not teaching it |
| DE LA TORRE AMAGUANA, LUZ MARIA reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.87 | 23 | 1 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| BERGERO, ADRIANA J reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.65 | 22 | 1 | 73% | light | not teaching it |
| DE LA TORRE, LUZ reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.83 | 12 · | 1 | 92% | light | 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 5 courses long before SPAN 150. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for SPAN 150 in Spring 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.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of main trends that characterize contemporary Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures and main concepts used to address them. Possible topics include transculturation and heterogeneity, race and ethnicity, vanguard movements, lettered and popular cultures, literary modernization in Latin American boom, literature and revolution, autobiography, women’s writing, border literature, and postmodernist fiction. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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