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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 8A

Colonial Latin America

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 8AH. General introduction to Latin American history from contact period to independence (1490s to 1820s), with emphasis on convergence of Native American, European, and African cultures in Latin America; issues of ethnicity and gender; development of colonial institutions and societies; and emergence of local and national identities. Readings focus on writings of Latin American men and women from the period studied. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.70
n = 1,526 · 4 terms · ± 0.014
A range
79%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
97% of those passed
D / F / W
0.7%
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 Open
343 of 349
98% full
 fills TR 11:00am-12:15pm Terraciano, K.B.
3.70n=1,526 · 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.

  • 40322F
  • 40723F
Enrolment by term: 22F 403, 23F 407
Peak 407 Most recent 407 in 23F 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 61 · 3.8%
  • A 830 · 51.4%
  • A- 307 · 19.0%
  • B+ 156 · 9.7%
  • B 89 · 5.5%
  • B- 30 · 1.9%
  • C+ 16 · 1.0%
  • C 23 · 1.4%
  • C- 4 · 0.2%
  • F 10 · 0.6%
  • P 72 · 4.5%
  • NP 2 · 0.1%
  • I 15 · 0.9%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

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
TERRACIANO, KEVIN B 3.70 3.70 1,526 4 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