Topics in Legal Studies and the Humanities
LEGALST 450 explores the intersection of humanities perspectives with the central themes of law and legal institutions.
Summary
Historical reviews of Rebecca Anderson: The workload consists of three papers or essays, weekly completion assignments, and participation, with grading described as very lenient and manageable if students skim readings.
Grade history
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Prerequisites
Course mapSophomore standing
- Sophomore standing
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Prerequisite text tree
- Sophomore standing
Professors
Fall 2026No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Melanie Murchison taught this course historically. Reviewers found her expectations unclear and grading harsh without specific feedback.
MELANIE MURCHISON is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2019, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
REBECCA ANDERSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of Rebecca Anderson: Rebecca Anderson's course is generally well-regarded for its accessible grading and interesting essay topics, though one review describes the content as relatively boring.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.66 GPA, 80.6% A/AB (n=72 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.72 GPA, 82.3% A/AB (n=62 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 84.1% A/AB (n=113 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Rebecca Anderson: The workload consists of three papers or essays, weekly completion assignments, and participation, with grading described as very lenient and manageable if students skim readings.
Historical reviews of Rebecca Anderson: Students find Professor Anderson knowledgeable and accessible, with supportive policies like extensions, though her lecture style of reading directly from slides is noted as a drawback.
Topics
Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
Before grades are released– average GPA
Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.10 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Fall 2026
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Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
Catalog & offerings
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Student reviews
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Grade history
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LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
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Model & dataset provenance
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