Hardest ETHN classes at UCSD

Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.

ETHN 138: Black & Latinx Crossings Average GPA 3.23, 116 students
ETHN 100A: Theoretical Approaches Average GPA 3.38, 224 students
ETHN 161: Black Poli&protest Since 1941 Average GPA 3.44, 113 students
ETHN 155: U.s. Militarism Average GPA 3.46, 123 students
ETHN 139: Chicano Literature in English Average GPA 3.51, 176 students
ETHN 153: Citizenship & Civil Rts/20th C Average GPA 3.53, 116 students
ETHN 179: Discover Jazz Average GPA 3.55, 373 students
ETHN 118: Contemprary Immigration Issues Average GPA 3.55, 221 students
ETHN 119: Race in the Americas Average GPA 3.60, 144 students
ETHN 183: Gender,race,ethnicity & Class Average GPA 3.60, 139 students
ETHN 109: Race & Social Movements Average GPA 3.63, 231 students
ETHN 112B: History/native Americans/us Ii Average GPA 3.64, 175 students
ETHN 116: Us-mexico Bordr/comp. Perspect Average GPA 3.64, 156 students
ETHN 30: Intro Chicanx & Latinx Studies Average GPA 3.65, 609 students
ETHN 20: Intro to Asian Amer Studies Average GPA 3.66, 271 students
ETHN 102: Sci and Techn:race/gendr/class Average GPA 3.67, 137 students
ETHN 178: Blues: an Oral Tradition Average GPA 3.67, 114 students
ETHN 100B: Interdisciplinarymethodologies Average GPA 3.68, 244 students
ETHN 140A: Refugee San Diego Average GPA 3.69, 115 students
ETHN 112C: California Native Am. History Average GPA 3.70, 101 students
ETHN 142: Medcn/race&globl Poli/inequity Average GPA 3.71, 201 students
ETHN 1: Intro: Land and Labor Average GPA 3.72, 1,941 students
ETHN 104: Race, Space, & Segregation Average GPA 3.73, 516 students
ETHN 152: Law and Civil Rights Average GPA 3.73, 214 students
ETHN 103: Environmental Racism Average GPA 3.74, 254 students
ETHN 112A: Nativeam& Indigenous Hist Us I Average GPA 3.74, 150 students
ETHN 189: Special Topics/ethnic Studies Average GPA 3.75, 356 students
ETHN 101: Ethnic Images in Film Average GPA 3.76, 735 students
ETHN 3R: R-Intro: Making Culture Average GPA 3.78, 1,602 students
ETHN 2: Intro:circulationsofdifference Average GPA 3.78, 1,546 students
ETHN 182: Race, Gender, Sexuality Sci Fi Average GPA 3.78, 298 students
ETHN 122: Asian American Cult & Identity Average GPA 3.78, 259 students
ETHN 113: Decolonizing Education Average GPA 3.79, 194 students
ETHN 3: Intro:making Culture Average GPA 3.80, 1,915 students
ETHN 127: Sexuality & Nation Average GPA 3.80, 207 students
ETHN 1R: R-intro: Land and Labor Average GPA 3.83, 921 students
ETHN 125R: R-asian American History Average GPA 3.84, 222 students
ETHN 2R: R-Intro:CirculationsofDifferen Average GPA 3.85, 1,679 students
ETHN 124: Asian American Literature Average GPA 3.85, 243 students
ETHN 20R: R-intro to Asian Amer Studies Average GPA 3.86, 222 students
ETHN 137: Latina Issues & Cultural Prod. Average GPA 3.86, 117 students
ETHN 101TV: Ethnic Images on Tv Average GPA 3.87, 353 students
ETHN 144M: Antiracist Medicine/healthcare Average GPA 3.87, 232 students
ETHN 121: Contemp Asian American History Average GPA 3.87, 122 students
ETHN 143: Chicana/o Film & Media Studies Average GPA 3.88, 210 students
ETHN 100C: Social Justice Praxis Average GPA 3.88, 184 students
ETHN 126: Comp Filip&viet Am Ident&cmnty Average GPA 3.88, 101 students
ETHN 117: Organic Social Movements Average GPA 3.89, 144 students
ETHN 110: Wrld Views/indigenous America Average GPA 3.90, 135 students
ETHN 121R: R-Contemp Asian American Hist Average GPA 4.00, 128 students