POL SCI 20
World Politics
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 12 discussions. 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 48 minutes ago.
Grades
3.60
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 20. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
72%
of the 3,099 letter grades
D, F or W
2.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
95% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 3,099 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 3.21 to 4.00.
- A+ 489 · 15.8%
- A 1,279 · 41.3%
- A- 467 · 15.1%
- B+ 310 · 10.0%
- B 234 · 7.6%
- B- 103 · 3.3%
- C+ 53 · 1.7%
- C 57 · 1.8%
- C- 34 · 1.1%
- D+ 26 · 0.8%
- D 8 · 0.3%
- D- 8 · 0.3%
- F 31 · 1.0%
- P 37 of 3,147
- NP 2 of 3,147
- I 8 of 3,147
- DR 1 of 3,147
Percentages are of the 3,099 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR). They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication. Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIN, ERIC ARAM reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.51 | 1,520 | 5 | 67% | very light | not teaching it |
| YING, LUWEI reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.76 | 818 | 3 | 83% | very light | Closed |
| WILKINSON, DAVID O reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.78 | 278 | 1 | 87% | light | not teaching it |
| JOHNS, LESLIE NICOLE reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.30 | 223 | 2 | 48% | average | not teaching it |
| ROBERTS, TYSON reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.69 | 117 | 1 | 78% | heavy | not teaching it |
| HIRONAKA, RYAN TODD reviews ↗ | 3.35 | 3.29 | 75 | 2 | 52% | - | not teaching it |
| PERRY, JOSEPH BRIAN reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 4.00 | 38 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| ROSS, MICHAEL L reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.44 | 30 | 1 | 77% | - | not teaching it |
| BERWALD, RACHEL ALEXIS reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.44 | 30 | 1 | 77% | - | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required of all students concentrating in Field II. Introduction to problems of world politics. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 13 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.
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Lec 1 MW 9:30am-10:45amClosed3.76this instructor · 818 grades
209 of 209 · 1 over enrolled high risk
12 discussions, 2 open: Dis 1E, R 5:00pm-5:50pm, and Dis 1I, R 6:00pm-6:50pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 2 open discussions cannot be reached from here. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 12 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (12)
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Dis 1A
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Royce Hall 164
Closed17 of 17 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1B
R 5:00pm-5:50pm · Royce Hall 164
Closed17 of 17 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1C
R 6:00pm-6:50pm · Royce Hall 164
Closed17 of 17 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1D
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Rolfe Hall 3134
Closed17 of 17 enrolled
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Dis 1E
R 5:00pm-5:50pm · Rolfe Hall 3134
Open1 seat left.
17 of 18 enrolled
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Dis 1F
R 6:00pm-6:50pm · Rolfe Hall 3126
Closed17 of 17 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160
Closed18 of 18 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160
Closed18 of 18 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 6:00pm-6:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160
Open1 seat left.
17 of 18 enrolled
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Dis 1J
W 4:00pm-4:50pm · Haines Hall A74
Closed17 of 17 enrolled
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Dis 1K
W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Haines Hall A74
Closed17 of 17 enrolled
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Dis 1L
W 6:00pm-6:50pm · Haines Hall A74
Closed18 of 18 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 116 and 358 a term over 11 terms, summer excluded, most recently 233 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.