HIST 8B
Modern Latin America
Grades
3.63
Average grade awarded in HIST 8B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 499 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
13 of 14 students passed
The registrar's own records: 499 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.46 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 74 · 14.8%
- A 213 · 42.7%
- A- 78 · 15.6%
- B+ 56 · 11.2%
- B 42 · 8.4%
- B- 9 · 1.8%
- C+ 4 · 0.8%
- C 10 · 2.0%
- C- 4 · 0.8%
- D+ 3 · 0.6%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- F 5 · 1.0%
- P 13 of 518
- NP 1 of 518
- I 5 of 518
Percentages are of the 499 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEREZ-MONTESINOS, FERNANDO reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 388 | 2 | 72% | - | not teaching it |
| DERBY, LAUREN reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 111 | 2 | 76% | 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 9 reviewers
- 1 quiz, said by 1 reviewer
- 2 papers, said by 3 reviewers
Read from 18 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 8B 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
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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. Introductory survey of social, political, and economic history of Latin America after independence, region that includes Mexico, Central and South America, and Caribbean. Formation of independent nation states and political regimes and quest for sovereignty and its challenges in shadow of U.S., approached from bottom up through lens of social history, everyday life, and popular culture. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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