SEASIAN 50
Southeast Asian Societies and Cultures
Grades
3.74
Average grade awarded in SEASIAN 50. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 246 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
7 of 7 students passed
The registrar's own records: 246 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.41 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 56 · 22.8%
- A 97 · 39.4%
- A- 51 · 20.7%
- B+ 18 · 7.3%
- B 11 · 4.5%
- B- 7 · 2.8%
- C+ 2 · 0.8%
- C- 2 · 0.8%
- F 2 · 0.8%
- P 7 of 254
- I 1 of 254
Percentages are of the 246 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAREDES, OONA reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.82 | 141 | 3 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| DUTTON, GEORGE EDSON reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.64 | 105 | 2 | 75% | very 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
Read from 6 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 Springs
Ran in 3 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. General introduction to varied and diverse region of Southeast Asia. Designed to acquaint students with broad themes that characterize societies, cultures, and civilizations of this vitally important part of globe. Study of historical trajectories that have led eleven countries of region to present situations. Emphasis on examinations of these societies and important contemporary issues relating to geography, topography, politics, culture, literature, gender issues, religion, human rights, and environment. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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