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CLUSTER 60B

America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 60A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.70
n = 885 · 4 terms · ± 0.018
A range
78%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
1%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

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.

  • 21622W
  • 22723W
  • 22224W
  • 22925W
Enrolment by term: 22W 216, 23W 227, 24W 222, 25W 229
Peak 229 Most recent 229 in 25W 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A 432 · 48.3%
  • A- 261 · 29.2%
  • B+ 108 · 12.1%
  • B 55 · 6.2%
  • B- 14 · 1.6%
  • C+ 5 · 0.6%
  • C 4 · 0.4%
  • C- 1 · 0.1%
  • D 3 · 0.3%
  • F 2 · 0.2%
  • P 9 · 1.0%

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
AVILA, ERIC R 3.73 3.74 673 3 82%
DECKER, JEFFREY LOUIS 3.73 3.73 660 3 80%
FINK, ROBERT W 3.79 3.79 448 2 86%
VAVRECK, LYNN 3.79 3.79 448 2 86%

“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