AN N EA 15W
Women and Power in Ancient World
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Lecture and discussion.
Summer Session A 2026: 2 lectures and 39 discussions. 2 lectures and 26 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.72
Average grade awarded in AN N EA 15W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
86%
of the 3,840 letter grades
D, F or W
3.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
79% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 3,840 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 3.48 to 3.82.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1,099 · 28.6%
- A 1,737 · 45.2%
- A- 448 · 11.7%
- B+ 165 · 4.3%
- B 123 · 3.2%
- B- 54 · 1.4%
- C+ 36 · 0.9%
- C 38 · 1.0%
- C- 18 · 0.5%
- D+ 12 · 0.3%
- D 12 · 0.3%
- D- 4 · 0.1%
- F 94 · 2.4%
- P 71 of 3,936
- NP 19 of 3,936
- I 6 of 3,936
Percentages are of the 3,840 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COONEY, KATHLYN M reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 3,840 | 12 | 86% | light | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 1 paper, 9 mentions in past reviews
- 1 project, 1 mention in past reviews
- 1 presentation, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 20 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before AN N EA 15W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for AN N EA 15W in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 15. Examination of how feminine power confronts masculine dominance within complex social systems in ancient world. To gain political power, some female rulers used their sexuality to gain access to important men. Other women gained their position as regents and helpers of masculine kings who were too young to rule. Others denied their femininity in dress and manner, effectively androgynizing themselves or pretending to be men so that their femininity would not be obstacle to political rule. Many women only gained throne at end of dynasties after male line had run out entirely, or in midst of civil war when patrilineal successions were in disarray. No women were able to gain reigns of power through their bloodlines alone. Women's power was compromised from outset. Examination of root causes and results of this political inequality. Satisfies Writing II requirement. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 41 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open45 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 352 of 396 enrolled
Instructor
Keith, B.J. and Cooney, K.M.
3.72Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 3,840 letter gradesSeat risk
-23 discussions, 17 open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 23 discussions
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Open25 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 316 of 341 enrolled
Instructor
Rhodes, C. and Cooney, K.M.
3.72Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 3,840 letter gradesSeat risk
-16 discussions, 9 open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 16 discussions
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 101 and 196 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 117 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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 · Keith, B.J. and Cooney, K.M. · 352 of 396 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 352 of 396.
Lec 2 · Rhodes, C. and Cooney, K.M. · 316 of 341 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 316 of 341.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.