ECON 165
History of Capitalism in American Economy
Grades
3.67
Average grade awarded in ECON 165. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 908 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
4 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 908 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.44 to 3.87.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 85 · 9.4%
- A 285 · 31.4%
- A- 299 · 32.9%
- B+ 150 · 16.5%
- B 72 · 7.9%
- B- 7 · 0.8%
- C+ 3 · 0.3%
- C 3 · 0.3%
- C- 2 · 0.2%
- F 2 · 0.2%
- P 4 of 912
Percentages are of the 908 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SURRO, CHRISTOPHER JOHN reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.67 | 908 | 9 | 74% | - | 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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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 102. Enforced corequisite: course 165L. How capitalism—what economists call market economy with well-defined and protected civil rights and property rights—has contributed to America’s economic growth. Quantitative course, with analysis of how different features of capitalist economies impact economic growth, investment, consumption, and technical change, using computer simulations based on prominent historical examples. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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