HIST 12B
Inequality: History of Neoliberalism
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 all professors, 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELLEY, ROBIN D G reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 886 | 3 | 93% | light | 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
- 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 Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters 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. 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 Winter 2027
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