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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 1A

Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations, Prehistory to circa AD 843

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of diverse cultures that shaped foundation of Western civilization to onset of 9th century AD. Investigation of first civilizations in Near East and Egypt. Analysis of worlds of Greeks and Romans. Examination of ways in which western European societies created new syntheses through selective appropriation of Greek and Roman cultures and introduction of new cultural forms. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.37
n = 560 · 7 terms · ± 0.023
A range
60%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
6%
89% of those passed
D / F / W
4.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
92 of 95
97% full
 fills MWF 11:00am-11:50am Phillips, D.D.
3.33n=317 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 14721F
  • 10622W
  • 12022F
  • 5123W
  • 9624S
  • 7824F
  • 1325S
Enrolment by term: 21F 147, 22W 106, 22F 120, 23W 51, 24S 96, 24F 78, 25S 13
Peak 147 Most recent 13 in 25S 7 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 32 · 5.2%
  • A 177 · 28.9%
  • A- 127 · 20.8%
  • B+ 70 · 11.4%
  • B 60 · 9.8%
  • B- 32 · 5.2%
  • C+ 12 · 2.0%
  • C 13 · 2.1%
  • C- 10 · 1.6%
  • D+ 2 · 0.3%
  • D 7 · 1.1%
  • D- 1 · 0.2%
  • F 17 · 2.8%
  • P 31 · 5.1%
  • NP 4 · 0.7%
  • I 17 · 2.8%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
PHILLIPS, DAVID DANIEL 3.33 3.33 317 3 56%
GOLDBERG, JESSICA LILLIAN 3.41 3.41 243 4 66%

“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.

By term