INTL DV 140
Decolonizing Political Economy: Colonialism and Development
Grades
3.77
Average grade awarded in INTL DV 140. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 269 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: 269 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.33 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 12 · 4.5%
- A 171 · 63.6%
- A- 39 · 14.5%
- B+ 14 · 5.2%
- B 20 · 7.4%
- B- 9 · 3.3%
- C+ 3 · 1.1%
- C- 1 · 0.4%
- I 2 of 271
Percentages are of the 269 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG, ALDEN reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.89 | 154 | 2 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| CHUN, JENNIFER JEEHAE reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.77 | 75 | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| THIES, MICHAEL F reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.33 | 40 | 1 | 50% | - | 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
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 1. Introduction to approaches and intellectual traditions of critical development studies. Violence of colonization and struggle for decolonization were two of defining processes of 20th century. Consideration of how development as global good can be reconciled with its origins in colonialism, and how development became hegemonic way of imagining decolonization. Particular focus on voices of critique and special emphasis to models of development that emerged from Africa, Middle East, and South Asia. Discussion of relationship between rival notions of development and competing ideas of international relations. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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