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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 13A

History of the U.S. and Its Colonial Origins: Colonial Origins and First Nation Building Acts

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Strongly recommended for History majors planning to take more advanced courses in U.S. history. Cultural heritages, political institutions, economic developments, and social interactions which created contemporary society. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.65
n = 412 · 3 terms · ± 0.027
A range
77%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
90% of those passed
D / F / W
1.9%
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
154 of 155
99% full
 fills TR 3:30pm-4:45pm Pestana, C.G.
3.74n=158 · 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.

  • 11221F
  • 15522F
  • 16523F
Enrolment by term: 21F 112, 22F 155, 23F 165
Peak 165 Most recent 165 in 23F 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 16 · 3.7%
  • A 190 · 43.9%
  • A- 113 · 26.1%
  • B+ 42 · 9.7%
  • B 32 · 7.4%
  • B- 8 · 1.8%
  • C+ 1 · 0.2%
  • C 1 · 0.2%
  • C- 1 · 0.2%
  • D- 1 · 0.2%
  • F 7 · 1.6%
  • P 18 · 4.2%
  • NP 2 · 0.5%
  • I 1 · 0.2%

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
PESTANA, CARLA G 3.74 3.75 158 1 92%
MERANZE, MICHAEL 3.60 3.60 145 1 74%
YIRUSH, CRAIG BRYAN 3.59 3.58 109 1 61%

“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