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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 3A

History of Science: Renaissance to 1800

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of beginnings of physical sciences involving transformation from Aristotelian to Newtonian cosmology, mechanization of natural world, rise of experimental science, and origin of scientific societies. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.77
n = 632 · 4 terms · ± 0.022
A range
85%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.3%
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.

  • 15921F
  • 16822F
  • 17523F
  • 15124F
Enrolment by term: 21F 159, 22F 168, 23F 175, 24F 151
Peak 175 Most recent 151 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 129 · 19.8%
  • A 295 · 45.2%
  • A- 116 · 17.8%
  • B+ 38 · 5.8%
  • B 23 · 3.5%
  • B- 12 · 1.8%
  • C+ 6 · 0.9%
  • C 4 · 0.6%
  • C- 1 · 0.2%
  • D+ 4 · 0.6%
  • F 4 · 0.6%
  • P 21 · 3.2%

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
ALEXANDER, AMIR 3.77 3.77 632 4 85%

“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