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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 10B

History of Africa, 1800 to Present

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 10BH or 10BW. Survey of social, economic, and political developments in Africa since 1800, with focus on slave trade, imperialism and colonialism, and nationalism and independence. Attention to different ideologies (nationalism, socialism, apartheid), rural/urban tensions, changing role of women. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.87
n = 1,137 · 4 terms · ± 0.016
A range
93%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
92% of those passed
D / F / W
1.0%
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.

  • 46121F
  • 23423S
  • 10925S
Enrolment by term: 21F 461, 23S 234, 25S 109
Peak 461 Most recent 109 in 25S 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 672 · 57.1%
  • A 296 · 25.2%
  • A- 84 · 7.1%
  • B+ 30 · 2.6%
  • B 15 · 1.3%
  • B- 13 · 1.1%
  • C+ 9 · 0.8%
  • C 5 · 0.4%
  • C- 2 · 0.2%
  • D+ 2 · 0.2%
  • D 2 · 0.2%
  • F 7 · 0.6%
  • P 36 · 3.1%
  • NP 3 · 0.3%

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
WORGER, WILLIAM H 3.89 3.89 897 2 93%
FREDERICK, HOLLIAN ELIZABETH REES 3.80 3.80 240 2 89%

“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