AN N EA 162
Archaeology, Identity, and Bible
Grades
3.16
Average grade awarded in AN N EA 162. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
52%
of the 168 letter grades
D, F or W
8.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
13%
96% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 168 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 2.73 to 3.57.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 21 · 12.5%
- A 37 · 22.0%
- A- 30 · 17.9%
- B+ 17 · 10.1%
- B 21 · 12.5%
- B- 10 · 6.0%
- C+ 6 · 3.6%
- C 8 · 4.8%
- C- 4 · 2.4%
- D 3 · 1.8%
- D- 2 · 1.2%
- F 9 · 5.4%
- P 24 of 196
- NP 1 of 196
- S 1 of 196
- I 2 of 196
Percentages are of the 168 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURKE, AARON ALEXANDER reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 168 | 3 | 52% | - | 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
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In Springs
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring 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. Introduction of archaeological record of southern Levant (ancient Israel) from Bronze Age through Achaemenid Period (circa 2500-332 BC) in combination with current understandings of genre, authorship, and historical value of Hebrew Bible. Ancient Israelite identities are traced through combination of archaeological and textual sources. Social, religious, and political traditions of ancient Israel and Judah are interpreted in context of both earlier Bronze Age traditions and Israel’s Iron Age neighbors. Archaeological and textual data for identities, such as Amorites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians, form basis for evaluating construction and maintenance of various biblical identities. Introduction to theoretical and methodological issues involving historical archaeology of ancient Israel and Levant, and possibilities for investigating negotiation of identity in archaeological record. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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