SPAN 180
Topics in Visual Culture
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in SPAN 180. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 365 letter grades
D, F or W
1.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 365 grades over 11 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 11 terms ran 3.40 to 3.84.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 40 · 11.0%
- A 182 · 49.9%
- A- 60 · 16.4%
- B+ 27 · 7.4%
- B 22 · 6.0%
- B- 17 · 4.7%
- C+ 2 · 0.5%
- C 6 · 1.6%
- C- 2 · 0.5%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- D- 3 · 0.8%
- F 3 · 0.8%
- P 3 of 368
Percentages are of the 365 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN, GREG D reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.54 | 200 | 10 | 69% | - | not teaching it |
| TOBIN, STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.79 | 94 | 3 | 88% | - | not teaching it |
| ARRIETA FERNANDEZ, NOHORA ALEJANDRA reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.84 | 49 | 2 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| ARROYO CALDERON, PATRICIA reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.70 | 22 | 1 | 91% | - | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for SPAN 180 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
(Formerly numbered M180.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 25 or 27, 119. Study of visual knowledge production in Latin America and Iberia as complex relation between visual subjects, practices, and representation. Objects of analysis may include architecture and urban design, digital media and other technologies, documentaries, fashion, fictional and experimental films, graphic novels and other media, maps and cartography, photography, plastic arts and art history, theater and performance, video, among others. May be repeated four times for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
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