CLUSTER 48A
Political Violence in Modern World: Causes, Cases, and Consequences
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
Dibs only reads Summer Session C 2026, so the later parts show no sections here: that is this term, not the sequence ending. What you keep if you take only part of a cluster is a question for the Cluster Program, not something these numbers answer.
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 48A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 689 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 689 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.73 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 103 · 14.9%
- A 447 · 64.9%
- A- 70 · 10.2%
- B+ 33 · 4.8%
- B 25 · 3.6%
- B- 9 · 1.3%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- P 1 of 700
- I 9 of 700
- DR 1 of 700
Percentages are of the 689 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARROYO CALDERON, PATRICIA reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 492 | 2 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| MCBRIDE, JARED reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 259 | 1 | 91% | light | not teaching it |
| GILLILAND, ANNE JERVOIS reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 259 | 1 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| ROTHBERG, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 259 | 1 | 91% | light | not teaching it |
| BROZGAL, LIA N reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.73 | 197 | 1 | 77% | - | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 11 reviewers
Read from 50 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
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 48A in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
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, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 48A is requisite to 48B, which is requisite to 48CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration of causes, dynamics, and consequences of political violence. Political violence can include anything from extra-legal warfare, ethnic cleansing and genocide, civil war, riots and pogroms, terrorism and state repression, revolution and counter-revolution, and more. Political violence is not modern phenomenon: it has been part of human experience from antiquity to present. Examination, from interdisciplinary perspective, of political violence, in particular, extreme form of political violence, genocide. Readings of theoretical and empirical works from history, comparative literature, sociology, political science, psychology, and more. Employs art, film, literature, diaries, memoirs, and news media to encourage critical thinking about political violence. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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