ANTHRO 2
Archaeology: Introduction
Grades
3.71
Average grade awarded in ANTHRO 2. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
81%
of the 2,676 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
96% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,676 grades over 11 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. 2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.28 to 3.96.
- A+ 311 · 11.6%
- A 1,535 · 57.4%
- A- 312 · 11.7%
- B+ 179 · 6.7%
- B 132 · 4.9%
- B- 61 · 2.3%
- C+ 41 · 1.5%
- C 45 · 1.7%
- C- 18 · 0.7%
- D+ 12 · 0.4%
- D 6 · 0.2%
- D- 6 · 0.2%
- F 18 · 0.7%
- P 135 of 2,826
- NP 5 of 2,826
- I 10 of 2,826
Percentages are of the 2,676 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). 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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, MONICA L reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.60 | 824 | 3 | 73% | light | not teaching it |
| LESURE, RICHARD GARDNER reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.53 | 779 | 3 | 68% | light | not teaching it |
| SCHACHNER, GREGSON T reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 639 | 2 | 97% | very light | not teaching it |
| DUNNAVANT, JUSTIN PEYTON reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.91 | 315 | 1 | 95% | very light | not teaching it |
| BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.95 | 119 | 2 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ANTHRO 2, 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.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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, three hours; discussion, one hour; one field trip. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. General survey of field and laboratory methods, theory, and major findings of anthropological archaeology, including case-study guest lectures presented by several campus archaeologists. P/NP or letter grading.