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.
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 C 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
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
- 1 paper, said by 9 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 presentation, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 20 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.
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 C 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 C 2026
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