HIST 8A
Colonial Latin America
Grades
3.70
Average grade awarded in HIST 8A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
79%
of the 1,978 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
98% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,978 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.52 to 3.93.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 77 · 3.9%
- A 1,080 · 54.6%
- A- 398 · 20.1%
- B+ 196 · 9.9%
- B 119 · 6.0%
- B- 43 · 2.2%
- C+ 16 · 0.8%
- C 30 · 1.5%
- C- 4 · 0.2%
- F 15 · 0.8%
- P 83 of 2,080
- NP 2 of 2,080
- I 16 of 2,080
- DR 1 of 2,080
Percentages are of the 1,978 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TERRACIANO, KEVIN B reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.70 | 1,978 | 6 | 79% | light | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 2 papers, said by 10 reviewers
Read from 36 reviews about 1 month 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 4 of the last 4 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. 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.
Sections in Fall 2025
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