CESC 50XP
Engaging Los Angeles
Lecture.
Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
3.78
Average grade awarded in CESC 50XP. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 1,334 letter grades
D, F or W
2.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 1,334 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. No summer session is in that record. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.59 to 3.95.
- A+ 3 · 0.2%
- A 1,029 · 77.1%
- A- 154 · 11.5%
- B+ 37 · 2.8%
- B 52 · 3.9%
- B- 11 · 0.8%
- C+ 6 · 0.4%
- C 7 · 0.5%
- C- 4 · 0.3%
- D 5 · 0.4%
- F 26 · 1.9%
- I 10 of 1,344
Percentages are of the 1,334 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STAUB, SHALOM DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 1,031 | 10 | 89% | light | not teaching it |
| MARQUEZ, RIGOBERTO reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.75 | 303 | 3 | 88% | very light | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Community-engaged learning course with focus on diverse communities of Los Angeles. Analysis of general shared history of Los Angeles. Comparing or contrasting of experiences of several different racial/ethnic groups. Engagement in meaningful work off campus to reflect on assets, injustices, and inequities that have shaped experiences of native or immigrant communities. Analysis of Los Angeles in which residents coexist and interact while managing tensions and social justice issues inherent in minority/majority city. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.
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Lec 2 W 2:00pm-4:50pmOpen3.78course average · 1,334 grades
1 seat left. 24 of 25 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 23 and 122 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 23 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
Lec 2 · Ritter, Z.S. · 24 of 25 enrolled
Freed 1 seat over 17 days
Across the 409 hours from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:48, dibs holds a read record for 168 of them. Where the line is flat across an hour dibs did read, the count held: that is checked and unchanged, rather than nobody having looked. For 10 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 27 August at 03:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 231 hours of this window. A hedged line never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.