HIST 11A
History of China: To 1000
Grades
3.49
Average grade awarded in HIST 11A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
68%
of the 180 letter grades
D, F or W
3.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
14%
87% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 180 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.21 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 1.1%
- A 73 · 40.6%
- A- 47 · 26.1%
- B+ 24 · 13.3%
- B 12 · 6.7%
- B- 10 · 5.6%
- C+ 3 · 1.7%
- C- 2 · 1.1%
- D 1 · 0.6%
- F 6 · 3.3%
- P 26 of 211
- NP 4 of 211
- I 1 of 211
Percentages are of the 180 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VON GLAHN, RICHARD reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.28 | 88 | 3 | 55% | heavy | not teaching it |
| ZHANG, MENG reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.85 | 56 | 1 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| GOLDMAN, ANDREA SUE reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.41 | 36 | 1 | 61% | - | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 22 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls.
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. Survey of early history of China--genesis of characteristic Chinese institutions and modes of thought from antiquity to 1000. Focus on social, political, intellectual, and economic aspects of early and middle empires. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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