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HIST 8B

Modern Latin America

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introductory survey of social, political, and economic history of Latin America after independence, region that includes Mexico, Central and South America, and Caribbean. Formation of independent nation states and political regimes and quest for sovereignty and its challenges in shadow of U.S., approached from bottom up through lens of social history, everyday life, and popular culture. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.63
n = 499 · 4 terms · ± 0.024
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
93% of those passed
D / F / W
1.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 5823W
  • 22724W
  • 6025W
Enrolment by term: 23W 58, 24W 227, 25W 60
Peak 227 Most recent 60 in 25W 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 74 · 14.3%
  • A 213 · 41.1%
  • A- 78 · 15.1%
  • B+ 56 · 10.8%
  • B 42 · 8.1%
  • B- 9 · 1.7%
  • C+ 4 · 0.8%
  • C 10 · 1.9%
  • C- 4 · 0.8%
  • D+ 3 · 0.6%
  • D 1 · 0.2%
  • F 5 · 1.0%
  • P 13 · 2.5%
  • NP 1 · 0.2%
  • I 5 · 1.0%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
PEREZ-MONTESINOS, FERNANDO 3.63 3.63 388 2 72%
DERBY, LAUREN 3.65 3.65 111 2 76%

“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.

By term