PUB PLC 274
Social Media and Public Policy
Grades
3.84
Average grade awarded in PUB PLC 274. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 71 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 71 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 5.6%
- A 42 · 59.2%
- A- 18 · 25.4%
- B+ 3 · 4.2%
- B 4 · 5.6%
Percentages are of the 71 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZIPPERSTEIN, STEVEN E reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.84 | 71 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Influence of social media on public discourse and public policy, in U.S. and overseas, has been far-reaching and dramatic. Exploration of positive and negative impacts of social media on individuals and society. Topics include tension between free expression and censorship; and public policy implications and responses (or lack thereof) to use of social media as platform for disseminating fake news, conspiracy theories, white nationalism, racism, and violence. Consideration of whether government should impose content rules on social media companies (as Federal Communications Commission does for broadcast media), or whether corporate terms and conditions of service as self-regulatory model should be relied on. Exploration of how to measure relative impact of social media versus money/campaign contributions on current U.S. political system. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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