HIST 1B
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 843 to circa 1715
Grades
3.57
Average grade awarded in HIST 1B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
71%
of the 1,233 letter grades
D, F or W
2.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
6%
91% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,233 grades over 10 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 10 terms ran 3.20 to 3.83.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 69 · 5.6%
- A 397 · 32.2%
- A- 411 · 33.3%
- B+ 185 · 15.0%
- B 74 · 6.0%
- B- 40 · 3.2%
- C+ 20 · 1.6%
- C 7 · 0.6%
- C- 7 · 0.6%
- D+ 6 · 0.5%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 16 · 1.3%
- P 69 of 1,343
- NP 7 of 1,343
- S 1 of 1,343
- U 1 of 1,343
- I 29 of 1,343
- DR 3 of 1,343
Percentages are of the 1,233 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLENDON, MURIEL C reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.53 | 634 | 4 | 68% | average | not teaching it |
| TUTINO, STEFANIA reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.59 | 458 | 3 | 72% | light | not teaching it |
| RUIZ, TEOFILO F reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.73 | 141 | 3 | 86% | average | 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
- 1 exam, said by 7 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 10 reviewers
Read from 82 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for HIST 1B in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 4 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, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to history of the West and its connections to rest of world from 843 to 1715. Profound social, political, cultural, and intellectual changes that affected development of modern world. Topics covered include economic, social, and cultural aspects of feudal system; relationship between Church and empire; new religious movements (including the Reformation); formation of nation-states; relationship between Western Europe and non-European and non-Christian people and traditions. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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