HIST 5
Holocaust: History and Memory
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in HIST 5. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
80%
of the 610 letter grades
D, F or W
3.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
10%
91% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 610 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.41 to 3.71.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 77 · 12.6%
- A 306 · 50.2%
- A- 107 · 17.5%
- B+ 43 · 7.0%
- B 27 · 4.4%
- B- 15 · 2.5%
- C+ 6 · 1.0%
- C 3 · 0.5%
- C- 4 · 0.7%
- D+ 3 · 0.5%
- D 2 · 0.3%
- D- 1 · 0.2%
- F 16 · 2.6%
- P 59 of 677
- NP 6 of 677
- I 1 of 677
- DR 1 of 677
Percentages are of the 610 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEIN, SARAH reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 610 | 5 | 80% | average | 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
- 1 exam, said by 8 reviewers
- 3 papers, said by 10 reviewers
Read from 20 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for HIST 5 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 3 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2023. That is 3 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 Winter 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
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Holocaust, murder of six million Jews by Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, is one of crucial events of modern history. Examination of origins of Holocaust, perpetrators and victims, and changing efforts to come to terms with this genocide. Exploration of forces that led to Holocaust, including emergence of scientific racism, anti-Semitism, and machinery of modern state. Consideration of debates about implementation of genocide, including significance of gender and sexuality, relationship between war and genocide, meanings of resistance and culpability, and political and philosophical implications of Holocaust. Exploration of how genocide of European Jewry was intertwined with targeting of other victims of Nazi rule, including Roma, Slavs, black Germans, disabled, homosexuals, and political opponents of National Socialism. P/NP or letter grading.
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