Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 7 sections.
1 section
is open.
The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.64
Average grade awarded in HIST 96W. Not a student rating: this is what
the grades were.
The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.016.
In the A range
The share who got an A minus or better: A+, A or A minus, out of every letter grade awarded in this course. Pass/no pass outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure.
79%
of the 1,525 letter grades
D, F or W
The share who finished with a D or an F, or withdrew. The closest thing here to a difficulty signal: it counts the people the course went badly for, which an average grade hides. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure, so a no-pass is not in it either.
3.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
The share who took this pass/no pass rather than for a letter grade. A high number usually means it is popular as a GE with people protecting an average. These students are excluded from the figure at the top of this block.
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 1,525 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025.
Every instructor is pooled here.
›iWhat is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.54 to 3.78.
Historical grades for ZHANG, MENG, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers
reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
“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.
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets.
That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews
linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before HIST 96W. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department
lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 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
Seminar, three hours. Requisite: English Composition 3. Introduction to study of history, with emphasis on historical theory and research methods. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
English Composition 3 (min D-), prerequisite
Registrar's Requisites.
Oldest reading: 4 days ago.
Sem 1Sem 2Sem 3Sem 4Sem 5Sem 6Sem 7History 97A through 188 are limited to History pre-majors, majors, and minors on the priority and first enrollment passes. Any student may enroll on second pass, space permitting. Nonmajors may enroll in History 97 and upper-division history courses (except those in the 191 series) on the second pass. History 191 seminars are limited to declared junior/senior History majors, who may enroll on the second pass. After July 2, 2026, some lower-division and upper-division seats are limited to students attending New Student Orientation sessions. All limitations are removed September 15, 2026. Seats are held for entering students who enroll through New Student Orientation sessions beginning July 2, 2026. New student restrictions will be lifted on September 15, 2026 at 8 a.m.
Registrar's Class notes.
Oldest reading: 4 days ago.
Sem 1Sem 2Sem 3Sem 4Sem 5Sem 6Sem 7
Eligibility details need rechecking. Open section details
20 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
20 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
20 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
20 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
20 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
1 seat left.19 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
20 of 20 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
English Composition 3 (min D-), prerequisite
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections:
between 17 and
20 a term
over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently
19 in Fall 2025.
That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking HIST 96W was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
This course runs 7 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
›iWhat 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.
Sem 1
· Thomas, P. and Penny, H.
· 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 8.
enrolled
20 of 20 · no seats left
readings only until 8 Sep
22cap 2010
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 12 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 2
· Zhang, M. and Penny, H.
· 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 15.
enrolled
20 of 20 · no seats left
readings only until 8 Sep
cap 203
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 5 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 3
· Pennington, S. and Penny, H.
· 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 11.
enrolled
20 of 20 · no seats left
readings only until 8 Sep
22cap 207
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 9 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 4
· Weinman, A.J. and Penny, H.
· 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 9.
enrolled
20 of 20 · no seats left
readings only until 8 Sep
22cap 209
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 11 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 5
· Chen, Z. and Penny, H.
· 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 10.
enrolled
20 of 20 · no seats left
readings only until 8 Sep
22cap 208
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 10 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 6
· Hayle, G. and Penny, H.
· 19 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 12.
enrolled
19 of 20 · 1 left
readings only until 8 Sep
22cap 205
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.19 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 1 left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 7 to 19. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 7
· Ramirez, C.A. and Penny, H.
· 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the seat count moved and came back.
enrolled
20 of 20 · no seats left
readings only until 8 Sep
23cap 2017
hours read
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 392. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 535 of 1095 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 20 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 560 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 392 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 535 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
›iHow 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.