POL SCI M152
Political Economy of Climate Change
Grades
3.43
Average grade awarded in POL SCI M152. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
57%
of the 666 letter grades
D, F or W
3.2%
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: 666 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.29 to 3.64.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 42 · 6.3%
- A 269 · 40.4%
- A- 68 · 10.2%
- B+ 58 · 8.7%
- B 152 · 22.8%
- B- 16 · 2.4%
- C+ 11 · 1.7%
- C 28 · 4.2%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- D+ 6 · 0.9%
- D 9 · 1.4%
- D- 1 · 0.2%
- F 5 · 0.8%
- I 5 of 671
Percentages are of the 666 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROSS, MICHAEL L reviews ↗ | 3.43 | 3.43 | 666 | 5 | 57% | - | 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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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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
(Same as International Development Studies M150.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Exploration of how governments at international, national, and regional levels are addressing—or not addressing—extraordinary challenge of climate change. Use of combination of readings, lectures, and discussions to better understand causes, consequences, and policies to address most important political problem of our time—not just in U.S., but in other major countries as well. Concentration on challenge of mitigating, rather than adapting to, climate change; and concentration on energy use, rather than agriculture, forestry, and land use. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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