ANTHRO 4
Culture and Communication
Grades
3.79
Average grade awarded in ANTHRO 4. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
87%
of the 2,902 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
96% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,902 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 3.23 to 3.92.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1,515 · 52.2%
- A 802 · 27.6%
- A- 219 · 7.5%
- B+ 113 · 3.9%
- B 79 · 2.7%
- B- 58 · 2.0%
- C+ 27 · 0.9%
- C 26 · 0.9%
- C- 18 · 0.6%
- D+ 4 · 0.1%
- D 10 · 0.3%
- D- 1 · 0.0%
- F 30 · 1.0%
- P 44 of 2,957
- NP 2 of 2,957
- I 8 of 2,957
- DR 1 of 2,957
Percentages are of the 2,902 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALIM, H SAMY reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.87 | 1,909 | 6 | 91% | light | not teaching it |
| MENDOZA-DENTON, NORMA reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.81 | 531 | 2 | 91% | light | not teaching it |
| CARTMILL, ERICA A reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.23 | 279 | 1 | 51% | very light | not teaching it |
| BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.80 | 183 | 3 | 90% | - | 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 read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 120 reviews 26 days ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ANTHRO 4 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 Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Introduction to study of communication from anthropological perspective. Formal linguistic methods compared with ethnographically oriented methods focused on context-bound temporal unfolding of communicative activities. Topics include language in everyday life and ritual events, socialization, literacy, multilingualism, miscommunication, political discourse, and art-making as cultural activity. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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