HNRS 138
Empire, Border Crossing, and Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in HNRS 138. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 54 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 54 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.84 to 3.93.
Historical grades for PODDAR, NAMRATA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 35 · 64.8%
- A- 18 · 33.3%
- B+ 1 · 1.9%
Percentages are of the 54 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PODDAR, NAMRATA reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 54 | 4 | 98% | heavy | Waitlist, 1 of 5 places taken |
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.
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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.
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.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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, four hours. Exploration of evolution of postcolonial studies through contemporary works of multiethnic American literature. How do our primary texts of fiction or creative nonfiction question literary conventions of allegedly mainstream Euro-American literature? What manifestations of empire, diasporic mobility, and generic mutability unite or separate creative works in question? What meditations on identity and intersectionality do our creative and critical texts offer as they intersect notions of race, class, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, nationality, and migration? What aesthetic or critical possibilities does multiethnic American storytelling open up for future of postcolonial and transnational studies? P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 M 2:00pm-4:50pmWaitlist3.89predicted, this instructor · 54 grades
1 of 5 places taken. 13 of 13 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 11 and 19 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 11 in Spring 2025. 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.
Sem 1 · Poddar, N. · 13 of 13 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the waitlist went 4 of 5 to 1 of 5.
All 15 readings say 13 of 13.
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.