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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER 48A

Political Violence in Modern World: Causes, Cases, and Consequences

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 48A is requisite to 48B, which is requisite to 48CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration of causes, dynamics, and consequences of political violence. Political violence can include anything from extra-legal warfare, ethnic cleansing and genocide, civil war, riots and pogroms, terrorism and state repression, revolution and counter-revolution, and more. Political violence is not modern phenomenon: it has been part of human experience from antiquity to present. Examination, from interdisciplinary perspective, of political violence, in particular, extreme form of political violence, genocide. Readings of theoretical and empirical works from history, comparative literature, sociology, political science, psychology, and more. Employs art, film, literature, diaries, memoirs, and news media to encourage critical thinking about political violence. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.88
n = 689 · 3 terms · ± 0.021
A range
90%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.3%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Cancelled
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— 		no history MW 9:30am-10:45am No instructors
3.88n=689 · course average

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.

  • 19921F
  • 23922F
  • 25923F
Enrolment by term: 21F 199, 22F 239, 23F 259
Peak 259 Most recent 259 in 23F 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 103 · 14.7%
  • A 447 · 63.9%
  • A- 70 · 10.0%
  • B+ 33 · 4.7%
  • B 25 · 3.6%
  • B- 9 · 1.3%
  • C 1 · 0.1%
  • D+ 1 · 0.1%
  • P 1 · 0.1%
  • I 9 · 1.3%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

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
ARROYO CALDERON, PATRICIA 3.93 3.94 492 2 95%
MCBRIDE, JARED 3.88 3.88 259 1 91%
GILLILAND, ANNE JERVOIS 3.88 3.88 259 1 91%
ROTHBERG, MICHAEL 3.88 3.88 259 1 91%
BROZGAL, LIA N 3.74 3.73 197 1 77%

“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