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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 2C

Religion, Occult, and Science: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in Western Tradition, 1000 to 1600

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Specific aspects of elite and popular culture in medieval and early modern Europe. Manner in which men and women sought to explain, order, and escape terrors of their lives by embracing transcendental religious experiences and dreaming of apocalypse and witchcraft. Examination of experiences in context of genesis of the state, birth of a new science, and economic and social change. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.84
n = 998 · 3 terms · ± 0.017
A range
90%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
8%
94% of those passed
D / F / W
1.1%
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.

  • 38122S
  • 33522F
Enrolment by term: 22S 381, 22F 335
Peak 381 Most recent 335 in 22F 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 288 · 26.4%
  • A 489 · 44.8%
  • A- 124 · 11.4%
  • B+ 53 · 4.9%
  • B 22 · 2.0%
  • B- 7 · 0.6%
  • C+ 2 · 0.2%
  • C 2 · 0.2%
  • F 11 · 1.0%
  • P 76 · 7.0%
  • NP 5 · 0.5%
  • S 1 · 0.1%
  • I 12 · 1.1%

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
RUIZ, TEOFILO F 3.84 3.84 998 3 90%

“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