GENDER 117
Introduction to Queer Latina/Latino Studies
Grades
3.39
Average grade awarded in GENDER 117. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
62%
of the 61 letter grades
D, F or W
4.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 61 grades over 2 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 2 terms ran 3.20 to 3.74.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 3 · 4.9%
- A 21 · 34.4%
- A- 14 · 23.0%
- B+ 8 · 13.1%
- B 7 · 11.5%
- B- 2 · 3.3%
- C+ 1 · 1.6%
- C 1 · 1.6%
- C- 1 · 1.6%
- F 3 · 4.9%
Percentages are of the 61 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUZMAN, JOSHUA J reviews ↗ | 3.28 | 3.20 | 40 | 1 | 45% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| BUSTILLO, DAN reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.74 | 21 | 1 | 95% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 2 reviews; source checked 6 days ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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. Examination of production of Latina/Latino identity and its limitations as it emerges within contemporary literature, music, film, and performance art. Engagement with texts that posit queer analytical approach to study how Latinidad is informed by modes of desire and identification that fall out of dominant notions of Latino in popular culture. Critical engagement of limits of knowledge production around Latina/Latino identity to develop new analytics that abide by question of Latinidad rather than posit answer or solution to its political consequences in contemporary U.S. culture. Study draws upon feminist and queer artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, Asco, Carmelita Tropicana, Gloria Anzadúa, Felix-Gonzales Torres, Gil Cuadros, and Gregg Araki. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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