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ART HIS 23

Modern Art

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; museum field trips. History of modern art from 1860s to 1960s, from Manet and impressionists to pop art and minimalism. Study of origins and social functions, as well as aesthetic innovations and philosophical dilemmas of modernism. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.72
n = 1,288 · 5 terms · ± 0.015
A range
80%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
6%
95% of those passed
D / F / W
1.2%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 26122S
  • 25223W
  • 25423S
  • 30424S
  • 30125W
Enrolment by term: 22S 261, 23W 252, 23S 254, 24S 304, 25W 301
Peak 304 Most recent 301 in 25W 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 237 · 17.3%
  • A 617 · 45.0%
  • A- 175 · 12.8%
  • B+ 99 · 7.2%
  • B 78 · 5.7%
  • B- 34 · 2.5%
  • C+ 18 · 1.3%
  • C 14 · 1.0%
  • D+ 3 · 0.2%
  • D 3 · 0.2%
  • D- 2 · 0.1%
  • F 8 · 0.6%
  • P 78 · 5.7%
  • NP 4 · 0.3%
  • S 2 · 0.1%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
CHOWDHURY, ZIRWAT 3.82 3.82 779 3 88%
BAKER, GEORGE THOMAS 3.58 3.57 509 2 68%

“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.

By term