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.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 14 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 28 minutes 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 COONEY, KATHLYN M, 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 | Fall 2026 |
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| COONEY, KATHLYN M reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 3,840 | 12 | 86% | light | 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.
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. 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.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 5 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, 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 Fall 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 15 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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ClosedLecture: 260 of 260 enrolled
Instructor
Cooney, K.M. and Rhodes, C.
3.72Predicted GPA
Historical records for COONEY, KATHLYN M; 3,840 letter gradesSeat risk
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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 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 · Cooney, K.M. and Rhodes, C. · 260 of 260 enrolled
Filled by 34 over 2 months
How readings and alerts work
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