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Dibs Fall 2026

ART 31A

Rise of Modernism in Global Context

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; field trips, three hours. Examination of global forces underlying development of modernist thought on art and society from mid-19th through early-20th centuries. Exploration of origins, development, theory, and practice of modernism in context of colonialism and industrialization. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.82
n = 275 · 4 terms · ± 0.032
A range
88%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
0.7%
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 Open
34 of 37
92% full
 fills F 9:00am-11:50am Vikram, A.
3.82n=275 · this instructor

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.

  • 7421F
  • 7422F
  • 6323F
  • 6924F
Enrolment by term: 21F 74, 22F 74, 23F 63, 24F 69
Peak 74 Most recent 69 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 106 · 37.9%
  • A 97 · 34.6%
  • A- 38 · 13.6%
  • B+ 16 · 5.7%
  • B 9 · 3.2%
  • B- 5 · 1.8%
  • C+ 1 · 0.4%
  • C 1 · 0.4%
  • F 2 · 0.7%
  • I 5 · 1.8%

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
VIKRAM, ANURADHA 3.82 3.82 275 4 88%

“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