ANTHRO 2
Archaeology: Introduction
Lecture.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 Summer Session A 2026
Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open75 seats left.
45 of 120 enrolled
Instructor
Meyer-Lorey, R. and Bigham, A.W.
3.71Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 2,676 letter gradesSeat risk
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 261 and 330 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 261 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Meyer-Lorey, R. and Bigham, A.W. · 45 of 120 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 45 of 120.
How readings and alerts work
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Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
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