HIST 21
World History, circa 600 to 1760
Grades
3.67
Average grade awarded in HIST 21. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
79%
of the 155 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
9 of 9 students passed
The registrar's own records: 155 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 3.41 to 3.92.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 15 · 9.7%
- A 78 · 50.3%
- A- 30 · 19.4%
- B+ 8 · 5.2%
- B 7 · 4.5%
- B- 7 · 4.5%
- C+ 7 · 4.5%
- C 1 · 0.6%
- C- 1 · 0.6%
- F 1 · 0.6%
- P 9 of 169
- I 5 of 169
Percentages are of the 155 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASLANIAN, SEBOUH DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.77 | 113 | 3 | 85% | light | not teaching it |
| SUBRAHMANYAM, SANJAY reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.41 | 42 | 1 | 64% | heavy | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 28 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 21 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 Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs 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, 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.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
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