CESC 50XP
Engaging Los Angeles
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
-
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. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.59 to 3.95.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- 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).
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 | Spring 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 |
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.
What the work looks like
- No exams, said by 3 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 8 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 24 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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 Spring 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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