History classes by average grade Hardest first Easiest first Biggest first
Bars start at 2.0
HIS 329P History of the Atomic Bomb 311 grades 3.12 HIS 320E Texas before 1900 111 grades 3.24 HIS 320T Topics in Texas History 317 grades 3.24 HIS 307Q Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies 103 grades 3.31 HIS 350R Topics in Undergraduate Seminar in United States History 132 grades 3.37 HIS 306N Topics in History 194 grades 3.38 HIS 333M United States Foreign Relations, 1914 to the Present 140 grades 3.40 HIS 301J Globalization: A Modern History 443 grades 3.43 HIS 315G Introduction to American Studies 1,199 grades 3.46 HIS 320F Texas, 1900 to the Present 173 grades 3.51 HIS 311K Introduction to Traditional Africa 101 grades 3.51 HIS 346K Colonial Latin America 185 grades 3.54 HIS 306K Introduction to the Middle East: Religious, Cultural, and Historical Foundations 116 grades 3.55 HIS 353 The French Revolution and Napoleon 133 grades 3.55 HIS 368S The Age of the Samurai 104 grades 3.55 HIS 356K Main Currents of American Culture since 1865 136 grades 3.57 HIS 310 Introduction to Modern Africa 109 grades 3.58 HIS 346L Modern Latin America 112 grades 3.58 HIS 378W Capstone in History 370 grades 3.59 HIS 350L Topics in Undergraduate Seminar in History 365 grades 3.60 HIS 320W Thinking Like a Historian 428 grades 3.60 HIS 355N Main Currents of American Culture to 1865 202 grades 3.63 HIS 315K The United States, 1492-1865 9,908 grades 3.64 HIS 315L The United States since 1865 6,598 grades 3.65 HIS 356S American Presidency: 1789 to the Present 247 grades 3.66 HIS 365G Topics in United States History 611 grades 3.68 HIS 317L Topics in United States History 4,884 grades 3.71 HIS 366N Topics in History 285 grades 3.72 HIS 302C Introduction to China 169 grades 3.74 HIS 314K History of Mexican Americans in the United States 1,322 grades 3.82 Show all 30 classes By year 2025–26: 3.64 School year Average grade Grades 2023–24 3.58 11,338 2024–25 3.64 10,241 2025–26 3.64 11,018
Across every term since summer 2011, History classes average 3.38 on 147,585 grades.
Compare departments 34th-highest of 83 Professor evaluations UT’s public results Sources UT grade reports We averaged every A to F grade UT reported in HIS classes from fall 2023 to summer 2026, using UT’s grade points (A is 4.0, A- is 3.67). This is a course-grade average. A class is listed once it gave 100 grades across at least two terms.
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