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INTL DV 1

Introduction to International Development Studies

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.

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Grades

3.79

Average grade awarded in INTL DV 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

89%

of the 1,346 letter grades

D, F or W

1.7%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

1%

13 of 13 students passed

The registrar's own records: 1,346 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.28 to 3.94.

Historical grades for APPEL, HANNAH C, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 417 · 63.4%
  • A 163 · 24.8%
  • A- 42 · 6.4%
  • B+ 10 · 1.5%
  • B 7 · 1.1%
  • B- 7 · 1.1%
  • C+ 4 · 0.6%
  • C 1 · 0.2%
  • C- 1 · 0.2%
  • D+ 1 · 0.2%
  • D 2 · 0.3%
  • F 3 · 0.5%
  • P 5 of 664
  • I 1 of 664

Percentages are of the 658 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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
APPEL, HANNAH C reviews ↗ 3.89 3.90 658 3 95% very light Closed
CHUN, JENNIFER JEEHAE reviews ↗ 3.84 3.84 255 2 91% - not teaching it
ANJUM, ERICA reviews ↗ 3.79 3.79 215 4 93% light not teaching it
MATISOFF, ADINA reviews ↗ 3.34 3.28 140 1 56% - not teaching it
THIES, MICHAEL F reviews ↗ 3.68 3.65 78 1 83% - 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.

Reviews for INTL DV 1

Workload and assignments

Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.

No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 42 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.

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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

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of historical and contemporary context of socioeconomic inequalities between Global South and Global North. Focus on cultural, political, and economic realities of developing world, which includes countries of Asia, eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

  • Lec 1

    MW 12:30pm-1:45pm

    Closed

    Lecture: 225 of 225 enrolled

    Appel, H.C.

    3.89

    Predicted GPA

    Historical records for APPEL, HANNAH C; 658 letter grades
    high risk
    9 discussions, none open. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 9 discussions
    • Dis 1A

      M 9:00am-9:50am · Public Affairs Building 1337

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1B

      M 10:00am-10:50am · Public Affairs Building 1337

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1C

      M 11:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 1329

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1D

      T 9:00am-9:50am · Bunche Hall 3153

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1E

      T 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 2178

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1F

      T 12:00pm-12:50pm · Bunche Hall 3153

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1G

      R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Bunche Hall 3150

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1H

      R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Bunche Hall 3153

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

    • Dis 1I

      R 3:00pm-3:50pm · Bunche Hall 2156

      Closed

      25 of 25 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 141 and 224 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 141 in Fall 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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Community guidelines

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 · Appel, H.C. · 225 of 225 enrolled

Nothing read since 18 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 37.

225 of 225 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:3217 Sep 16:3218 Oct 20:32 · 3 hours ago
Checked 168 of the 644 hours with hourly history, 26%. No reading was recorded in 476 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 22 Sep, which is the other 853 of 1497 plotted.225 of 225 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 18 Oct 20:32, 188 to 225. Checks are not continuous monitoring. Changes between checks may be missed.
How readings and alerts work

Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.

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.