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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER 60A

America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 60A is enforced requisite to 60B, which is enforced requisite to 60CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.64
n = 952 · 4 terms · ± 0.018
A range
71%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.2%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Closed
169 of 169
100% full
 fills MW 3:30pm-4:45pm Fink, R.W., Decker, J.L., Avila, E.R., Vavreck, L.
3.70n=476 · this instructor

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.

  • 23921F
  • 23822F
  • 23923F
  • 23824F
Enrolment by term: 21F 239, 22F 238, 23F 239, 24F 238
Peak 239 Most recent 238 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A 426 · 44.7%
  • A- 249 · 26.1%
  • B+ 156 · 16.4%
  • B 81 · 8.5%
  • B- 16 · 1.7%
  • C+ 7 · 0.7%
  • C 6 · 0.6%
  • D+ 1 · 0.1%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • D- 4 · 0.4%
  • F 5 · 0.5%
  • P 2 · 0.2%

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
DECKER, JEFFREY LOUIS 3.62 3.62 714 3 70%
AVILA, ERIC R 3.69 3.69 714 3 77%
FINK, ROBERT W 3.70 3.70 476 2 79%
VAVRECK, LYNN 3.70 3.70 476 2 79%

“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