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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 20

World History to AD 600

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Examination of earliest civilizations of Asia, North Africa, and Europe--Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, India, China, Greece, and Rome--from development of settled agricultural communities until about AD 500, with focus on rise of cities, organization of society, nature of kingship, writing and growth of bureaucracy, varieties of religious expression, and linkage between culture and society. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.66
n = 487 · 4 terms · ± 0.024
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
96% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
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.

  • 17221F
  • 17822F
  • 11723F
  • 4824F
Enrolment by term: 21F 172, 22F 178, 23F 117, 24F 48
Peak 178 Most recent 48 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 53 · 10.3%
  • A 159 · 30.9%
  • A- 144 · 28.0%
  • B+ 70 · 13.6%
  • B 43 · 8.3%
  • B- 6 · 1.2%
  • C+ 6 · 1.2%
  • C 6 · 1.2%
  • P 25 · 4.9%
  • NP 1 · 0.2%
  • I 2 · 0.4%

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
GREEN, NILE SPENCER 3.66 3.66 439 3 73%
KOH, CHOON HWEE 3.64 3.63 48 1 73%

“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