POL SCI 20
World Politics
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 12 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 12 hours ago.
Grades
3.60
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 20. Not a student 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. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 3.21 to 4.00.
Historical grades for YING, LUWEI, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 187 · 22.9%
- A 422 · 51.6%
- A- 72 · 8.8%
- B+ 52 · 6.4%
- B 37 · 4.5%
- B- 10 · 1.2%
- C+ 14 · 1.7%
- C 8 · 1.0%
- C- 6 · 0.7%
- D+ 5 · 0.6%
- D 2 · 0.2%
- F 3 · 0.4%
- P 4 of 823
- I 1 of 823
Percentages are of the 818 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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 | Fall 2026 |
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| 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 |
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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 154 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
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
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 13 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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ClosedLecture: 240 of 240 enrolled
Seat risk
high risk12 discussions, none open. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 12 discussions
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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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Ying, L. · 240 of 240 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 12 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 50.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.