HNRS 138
Empire, Border Crossing, and Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.
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 all professors, 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PODDAR, NAMRATA reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 54 | 4 | 98% | heavy | 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.
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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.
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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.
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 Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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