LBR STD 153
Stories of Struggle: Work, Class, and Narrative in Contemporary America
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 all professors, 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAFFNEY, LORETTA M reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 159 | 5 | 75% | 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.
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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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2027
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