POL SCI 20
World Politics
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- 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).
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.
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 | Winter 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 | not teaching it |
| 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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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