LBR STD 153
Stories of Struggle: Work, Class, and Narrative in Contemporary America
Lecture.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
3.63
Average grade awarded in LBR STD 153. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
75%
of the 159 letter grades
D, F or W
2.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 159 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.40 to 3.71.
Historical grades for GAFFNEY, LORETTA M, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 16 · 10.1%
- A 79 · 49.7%
- A- 25 · 15.7%
- B+ 16 · 10.1%
- B 10 · 6.3%
- B- 5 · 3.1%
- C+ 1 · 0.6%
- C 2 · 1.3%
- C- 1 · 0.6%
- D 1 · 0.6%
- F 3 · 1.9%
- P 1 of 162
- S 1 of 162
- I 1 of 162
Percentages are of the 159 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), satisfactory (S), 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAFFNEY, LORETTA M reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 159 | 5 | 75% | heavy | Closed |
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.
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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.
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In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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. Overview of contemporary working narratives. Investigation of how working-class Americans from diverse backgrounds have narrated their struggles with poverty, education, work, parenthood, bodily suffering, and war. Inquiry into what readers can learn from these struggles as students, writers, and activists. Emphasis on 21st-century narratives. Analysis of variety of genres, including poetry, lyrics, short stories, journalism and reportage, novels, memoir, and autobiography, for how they portray working class people and what they offer working class movement culture. Consideration of class as intersectional category of experience along with race, gender, and sexuality. Students read narratives about class and work, and contribute to body of working class literature through memoir, fiction, poetry, or journalism. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 M 2:00pm-4:50pmClosed3.63predicted, this instructor · 159 grades
40 of 40 · 1 over enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 27 and 42 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 42 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking LBR STD 153 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Gaffney, L.M. · 40 of 40 · 1 over enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the waitlist moved and came back.
All 14 readings say 40 of 40.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.