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HIST 21

World History, circa 600 to 1760

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Outline of world history from rise of Islam to start of Industrial Revolution, structured around a broad chronological narrative of salient developments. Use of thematic and comparative approaches, with certain recurring themes and institutions that modulate from culture to culture. Reading of variety of contemporary accounts to look at way people perceived cultures outside their own. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.67
n = 155 · 4 terms · ± 0.042
A range
79%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 4922W
  • 3923W
  • 3824W
Enrolment by term: 22W 49, 23W 39, 24W 38
Peak 49 Most recent 38 in 24W 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 15 · 8.9%
  • A 78 · 46.2%
  • A- 30 · 17.8%
  • B+ 8 · 4.7%
  • B 7 · 4.1%
  • B- 7 · 4.1%
  • C+ 7 · 4.1%
  • C 1 · 0.6%
  • C- 1 · 0.6%
  • F 1 · 0.6%
  • P 9 · 5.3%
  • I 5 · 3.0%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
ASLANIAN, SEBOUH DAVID 3.76 3.77 113 3 85%
SUBRAHMANYAM, SANJAY 3.47 3.41 42 1 64%

“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.

By term