CESC 98A
Leadership and Social Change
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 85 minutes ago.
Grades
3.96
Average grade awarded in CESC 98A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
100%
of the 42 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
92%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 42 grades over 8 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.
Historical grades for FINZI-SMITH, AMANDA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- P 48 of 48
Counts are out of 48 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRETZ, SHELBY MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.96 | 42 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| BORMAN, CASEY JOE reviews ↗ | P/NP | 57 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| VAVRECK, LYNN reviews ↗ | P/NP | 21 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| YOO, DAVID K reviews ↗ | P/NP | 22 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| WILSON, CHRISTINE H reviews ↗ | P/NP | 73 P/NP | 2 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| STEIN, JENNIFER LISA reviews ↗ | P/NP | 94 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| HUFFMEYER, AUDRA ALEXANDRA reviews ↗ | P/NP | 205 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| VALENZUELA, ABEL, JR reviews ↗ | P/NP | 22 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| FINZI-SMITH, AMANDA reviews ↗ | P/NP | 48 P/NP | 1 | - | - | Open, 15 seats left |
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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall 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
Seminar, two hours. Exploration of different modes of leadership and consideration of how effective leadership can bring about positive social change. We live in period of extraordinary opportunity and challenge—in which breathtaking technological advances sit alongside breathtaking cynicism and corruption. Examination of how effective and inspiring leaders can lead in such environment, if it is possible to make difference and effect change in face of deep structural inequality, criteria that make effective leader, and if each of us bears within ourselves leadership potential. Exploration of past models of successful leadership and different models of present-day leadership, drawing on inspiring examples from social activism, politics, religion, law, philanthropy, and education. Students are encouraged to formulate their own models of leadership. Three to four day experiential learning opportunity in leadership development off campus. P/NP grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 1. The restriction reading needs rechecking.
Sem 1 T 6:00pm-7:50pmOpenFinzi-Smith, A., Wilson, C.H., and Nicholas, Z.Z.
3.93predicted, all instructors · 42 grades15 seats left. 45 of 60 enrolled low risk
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 2. The restriction reading needs rechecking.
Sem 2 T 3:00pm-4:50pmOpenFinzi-Smith, A., Wilson, C.H., and Nicholas, Z.Z.
3.93predicted, all instructors · 42 grades16 seats left. 14 of 30 enrolled medium risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 21 and 48 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 48 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking CESC 98A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Sem 1 · Finzi-Smith, A., Wilson, C.H., and Nicholas, Z.Z. · 45 of 60 enrolled
Filled by 45 over about 1 month
Sem 2 · Finzi-Smith, A., Wilson, C.H., and Nicholas, Z.Z. · 14 of 30 enrolled
Filled by 14 over about 1 month
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.