PHILOS 100C
History of Modern Philosophy, 1650 to 1800
Grades
3.67
Average grade awarded in PHILOS 100C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 569 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
15 of 15 students passed
The registrar's own records: 569 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.42 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 52 · 9.1%
- A 260 · 45.7%
- A- 119 · 20.9%
- B+ 65 · 11.4%
- B 43 · 7.6%
- B- 9 · 1.6%
- C+ 7 · 1.2%
- C 5 · 0.9%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- D+ 2 · 0.4%
- F 6 · 1.1%
- P 15 of 600
- I 14 of 600
- DR 2 of 600
Percentages are of the 569 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEWITT, JANELLE reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.59 | 290 | 2 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
| NORMORE, CALVIN G reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.85 | 171 | 1 | 88% | - | not teaching it |
| CARRIERO, JOHN P reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.58 | 108 | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: one philosophy course. Strongly recommended requisite: course 100B. Courses 100A, 100B, and 100C should be taken in immediately successive terms if possible. Survey of development of metaphysics and theory of knowledge from 1650 to 1800, including Locke and/or Berkeley, Malebranche and/or Leibniz, and culminating in Hume and Kant. Topics may include views of these (and perhaps other) philosophers of the period on mind and body, causality, existence of God, skepticism, empiricism, limits of human knowledge, and philosophical foundations of modern science. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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