HIST 12B
Inequality: History of Neoliberalism
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 18 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
3.86
Average grade awarded in HIST 12B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 886 letter grades
D, F or W
0.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 886 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.79 to 3.94.
Historical grades for KELLEY, ROBIN D G, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 96 · 10.8%
- A 581 · 65.6%
- A- 146 · 16.5%
- B+ 34 · 3.8%
- B 10 · 1.1%
- B- 4 · 0.5%
- C+ 4 · 0.5%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- C- 2 · 0.2%
- D+ 2 · 0.2%
- F 6 · 0.7%
- P 29 of 929
- I 14 of 929
Percentages are of the 886 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELLEY, ROBIN D G reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 886 | 3 | 93% | light | Open, 2 seats left |
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
- No exams, said by 1 reviewer
- No quizzes, said by 1 reviewer
- 2 papers, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 20 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 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
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, one hour. Exploration of origins, ideas, and consequences of neoliberalism--theory that society is best organized on principles of free trade, deregulation, and privatization. Combination of political, economic, and intellectual history to construct genealogy of neoliberal thinking by attending to 18th- and 19th-century liberalism, colonialism, imperialism, rise of social democracy and military Keynesianism, and Mount Pelerin Society's Cold War resuscitation of 19th-century liberalism. Coverage of economic crisis of 1970s, restructuring of global political economy in U.S., Europe, global south--specifically debt, structural adjustment policies, environmental destruction, and military intervention. Tracing of colonial roots of global north-south divide to reveal how neoliberal policies represent longer process of accumulation by dispossession and enclosure rather than sudden radical break from Keynesian model. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 19 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 12:30pm-1:45pmOpen3.86predicted, this instructor · 886 grades
2 seats left. 359 of 360 enrolled high risk
18 discussions, 2 open: Dis 1D, W 9:00am-9:50am, and Dis 1L, R 4:00pm-4:50pm.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (18)
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Dis 1A
T 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1264
Closed20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1B
T 4:00pm-4:50pm · Kaufman Hall 153
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1C
T 5:00pm-5:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A66
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 9:00am-9:50am · Bunche Hall 2168
Open1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
T 2:00pm-2:50pm · Haines Hall A28
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
W 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall A28
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1G
W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1284
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 9:00am-9:50am · Rolfe Hall 3129
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 8:00am-8:50am · Rolfe Hall 3129
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1J
R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1278
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1K
R 5:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1284
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1L
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Kaufman Hall 153
Open1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1M
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1278
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1N
F 11:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2325
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1O
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Haines Hall A28
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1P
W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Haines Hall A28
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1Q
W 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2325
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1R
W 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 2168
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 287 and 341 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 287 in Fall 2023. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Kelley, R.D. · 359 of 360 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 48.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.