CCAS 188
Special Courses in Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Grades
3.81
Average grade awarded in CCAS 188. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
88%
of the 1,105 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
10 of 11 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,105 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 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 3.46 to 3.97.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 403 · 36.5%
- A 455 · 41.2%
- A- 118 · 10.7%
- B+ 42 · 3.8%
- B 39 · 3.5%
- B- 15 · 1.4%
- C+ 10 · 0.9%
- C 5 · 0.5%
- C- 4 · 0.4%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 2 · 0.2%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 10 · 0.9%
- P 10 of 1,123
- NP 1 of 1,123
- S 1 of 1,123
- I 6 of 1,123
Percentages are of the 1,105 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEINBERG, MINDY G reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.81 | 303 | 7 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| MARTINEZ, CELINA M reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.80 | 214 | 5 | 91% | very light | not teaching it |
| BLACK, CHARLENE VILLASENOR reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.82 | 110 | 3 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| CARPIO, GENEVIEVE GONZALEZ reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.92 | 101 | 3 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| ROMERO, ROBERT C reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.88 | 81 | 3 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| BLACKWELL, MAYLEI S reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.89 | 66 | 3 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| ABREGO, LEISY JANET reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.86 | 45 | 2 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| ELLIS, HELEN reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.65 | 38 | 1 | 82% | - | not teaching it |
| AVILES, GUILLERMO G reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.46 | 35 | 1 | 71% | - | not teaching it |
| JOHNSON, GAYE THERESA reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 4.00 | 35 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| GASPAR DE ALBA, ALICIA reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.46 | 20 | 1 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
| VALENZUELA, ABEL, JR reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.67 | 20 | 1 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
| PESCADOR, OCTAVIO reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 4.00 | 16 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| GUERRA, LAUREN F reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.34 | 11 · | 1 | 64% | - | not teaching it |
| VALENZUELA, ABEL reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.77 | 10 · | 1 | 80% | - | 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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From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, three hours. Some sections may require prior coursework. Departmentally sponsored experimental or temporary courses, such as those taught by visiting faculty members. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
From the people who took it
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