CCAS 191
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Seminar.
Winter 2026: 4 sections. 3 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.52
Average grade awarded in CCAS 191. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
69%
of the 570 letter grades
D, F or W
3.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
7 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 570 grades over 13 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, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 2.64 to 3.98.
Historical grades for BOJ LOPEZ, FLORIDALMA ELIZABETH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 22 · 22.9%
- A 55 · 57.3%
- A- 7 · 7.3%
- B+ 1 · 1.0%
- B 8 · 8.3%
- B- 2 · 2.1%
- F 1 · 1.0%
- I 1 of 97
Percentages are of the 96 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALDERON, HECTOR V reviews ↗ | 3.25 | 3.21 | 115 | 4 | 49% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BOJ LOPEZ, FLORIDALMA ELIZABETH reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.82 | 96 | 2 | 88% | average | Open, 4 seats left |
| AVILA, ERIC R reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.70 | 85 | 2 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| VALENZUELA, ABEL, JR reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.98 | 61 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| GASPAR DE ALBA, ALICIA reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 2.96 | 52 | 2 | 31% | - | not teaching it |
| CHAVEZ MORENO, LAURA CAROLINA reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.02 | 50 | 2 | 30% | - | not teaching it |
| ALMA, KARINA reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.78 | 40 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| BARRETO, MATTHEW ALEJANDRO reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.57 | 35 | 2 | 80% | very light | not teaching it |
| ROMERO, ROBERT C reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.59 | 20 | 1 | 75% | - | not teaching it |
| GARCIA HERNANDEZ, YESSICA reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.71 | 16 · | 1 | 81% | - | 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.
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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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, three hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Research seminar organized around readings and engaged discussion of critical topic of interest in field. Exploration of issue, its theoretical implication for field, and practical implications for communities. Final research project required. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 4 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Sem 1 TR 10:00am-11:50amOpen
Cornejo, K.
3.52predicted, all instructors · 570 grades21 seats left. 24 of 45 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Sem 2 MW 2:00pm-3:50pmCancelled
No instructors
3.52predicted, all instructors · 570 gradesno enrollment count published -
not checked yet -
Sem 3 MW 11:00am-12:15pmOpen3.52predicted, all instructors · 570 grades
1 seat left. 17 of 18 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Sem 4 MW 5:00pm-6:15pmOpen3.77predicted, this instructor · 96 grades
4 seats left. 41 of 45 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 20 and 53 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 34 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 CCAS 191 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 3 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 · Cornejo, K. · 24 of 45 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 24 of 45.
Sem 3 · Carpio, G.G. · 17 of 18 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 17 of 18.
Sem 4 · Boj Lopez, F.E. · 41 of 45 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 41 of 45.
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.