ITALIAN 42C
Italy Through the Ages in English: Food and Literature in Italy
Grades
3.74
Average grade awarded in ITALIAN 42C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 168 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
7%
12 of 12 students passed
The registrar's own records: 168 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.55 to 3.83.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 35 · 20.8%
- A 73 · 43.5%
- A- 29 · 17.3%
- B+ 14 · 8.3%
- B 8 · 4.8%
- B- 4 · 2.4%
- C+ 1 · 0.6%
- C 2 · 1.2%
- C- 1 · 0.6%
- F 1 · 0.6%
- P 12 of 180
Percentages are of the 168 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOGNOZZI, ELISSA ANN reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 90 | 3 | 83% | light | not teaching it |
| NATHAN, VETRI reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.77 | 78 | 2 | 79% | - | 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.
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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 papers, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ITALIAN 42C in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 4 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, four hours; discussion, one hour. Profile of Italian history and culture through analysis of gastronomic and literary texts. Special emphasis on late Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Risorgimento. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
From the people who took it
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