ECON 137
Introduction to Urban and Regional Economics
Grades
3.31
Average grade awarded in ECON 137. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
49%
of the 1,004 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
5 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,004 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 2.93 to 3.57.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 79 · 7.9%
- A 223 · 22.2%
- A- 186 · 18.5%
- B+ 147 · 14.6%
- B 154 · 15.3%
- B- 89 · 8.9%
- C+ 42 · 4.2%
- C 54 · 5.4%
- C- 16 · 1.6%
- D+ 3 · 0.3%
- D 4 · 0.4%
- D- 3 · 0.3%
- F 4 · 0.4%
- P 5 of 1,018
- NP 3 of 1,018
- I 6 of 1,018
Percentages are of the 1,004 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSEI TWUMASI, OLIVIA IRENA reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.31 | 1,004 | 7 | 49% | 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.
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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.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 9 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 46 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
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before ECON 137. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ECON 137 in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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. Requisite: course 11. Survey of broad range of policy and theoretical issues that are raised when economic analysis is applied in urban setting. Topics include urbanization and urban growth, housing markets, location decisions of households and firms, transportation, urban labor markets, and local public sector. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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