POL SCI 20
World Politics
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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
“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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for POL SCI 20, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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.