HIST 130
History of European Political Thought
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in HIST 130. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 298 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 298 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.86 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 134 · 45.0%
- A 126 · 42.3%
- A- 17 · 5.7%
- B+ 6 · 2.0%
- B 6 · 2.0%
- B- 4 · 1.3%
- C 2 · 0.7%
- F 3 · 1.0%
- S 1 of 300
- I 1 of 300
Percentages are of the 298 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S) 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STACEY, PETER JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 298 | 3 | 93% | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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In Falls
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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 (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to principal themes in history of European political thought from classical antiquity to close of early modern period. Study of outstanding contributions to history of social, political, and moral philosophy in texts of major thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, More, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Reconstruction of broad intellectual and ideological contexts from which their work emerged to help students make sense of works of political philosophy in their relevant historical setting and to know something about Athenian democracy and its critics, Roman republic and its empire, Renaissance, early modern European civil wars, American and French Revolutions, and Enlightenment. Focus on emergence of some crucial concepts during this period—ideas about state, self, rights, sovereignty, liberty, private property, and more—that define way we think about politics and society in modern world. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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