HIST M133C
History of Prostitution
Also listed as GENDER M133C: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.53
Average grade awarded in HIST M133C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
69%
of the 256 letter grades
D, F or W
3.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
11 of 11 students passed
The registrar's own records: 256 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.14 to 3.65.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 42 · 16.4%
- A 93 · 36.3%
- A- 42 · 16.4%
- B+ 25 · 9.8%
- B 27 · 10.5%
- B- 11 · 4.3%
- C+ 4 · 1.6%
- C 3 · 1.2%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 8 · 3.1%
- P 11 of 271
- S 2 of 271
- I 2 of 271
Percentages are of the 256 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NORBERG, MARY KATHRYN reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.60 | 186 | 2 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| DAYTON, ELIZABETH C reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.44 | 53 | 1 | 72% | - | not teaching it |
| RAZACK, SHERENE HALIDA reviews ↗ | 3.34 | 3.14 | 17 · | 1 | 71% | - | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for HIST M133C in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
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. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Spring 2023.
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
(Same as Gender Studies M133C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. History of prostitution from ancient times to present. Topics include toleration in medieval Europe, impact of syphilis, birth of courtesan, regulation in 19th-century Europe, white slavery scare, and contemporary global sex trade. Readings include novels, primary sources, and testimony by sex workers. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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