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. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.28 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- 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).
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 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 |
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
- 5 exams, 7 mentions in past reviews
- 5 quizzes, 4 mentions in past reviews
- 2 papers, 13 mentions in past reviews
Based on 90 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.
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.
Sections in Fall 2025
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