I A STD 1
Introduction to International and Area Studies
Grades
3.56
Average grade awarded in I A STD 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
68%
of the 498 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
11 of 13 students passed
The registrar's own records: 498 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.37 to 3.72.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 17 · 3.4%
- A 239 · 48.0%
- A- 83 · 16.7%
- B+ 56 · 11.2%
- B 44 · 8.8%
- B- 21 · 4.2%
- C+ 16 · 3.2%
- C 4 · 0.8%
- C- 9 · 1.8%
- D+ 3 · 0.6%
- D 2 · 0.4%
- D- 1 · 0.2%
- F 3 · 0.6%
- P 11 of 518
- NP 2 of 518
- I 7 of 518
Percentages are of the 498 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, ADAM D reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.64 | 292 | 4 | 74% | light | not teaching it |
| MATISOFF, ADINA reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.44 | 206 | 2 | 60% | 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
- 2 exams, said by 8 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 7 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 42 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
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, one hour. Introduction to international and area studies from interdisciplinary framework, covering themes related to international politics and markets, as well as international societies and cultures, to illuminate and clarify profoundly international character of world we live in and to introduce set of contemporary issues and challenges that cross borders and affect every region of world. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
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