POL SCI 169
Special Studies in Comparative Politics
Grades
3.67
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 169. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 1,314 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
11 of 12 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,314 grades over 12 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 12 terms ran 3.35 to 3.98.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 198 · 15.1%
- A 619 · 47.1%
- A- 184 · 14.0%
- B+ 98 · 7.5%
- B 124 · 9.4%
- B- 30 · 2.3%
- C+ 18 · 1.4%
- C 19 · 1.4%
- C- 3 · 0.2%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 5 · 0.4%
- F 15 · 1.1%
- P 11 of 1,355
- NP 1 of 1,355
- S 1 of 1,355
- I 28 of 1,355
Percentages are of the 1,314 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOFCHIE, MICHAEL F reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.80 | 596 | 8 | 86% | very light | not teaching it |
| ROBERTS, TYSON reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.35 | 288 | 3 | 49% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| MOUSA, SALMA reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.66 | 179 | 3 | 82% | light | not teaching it |
| MCNAMEE, LACHLAN ANDREW reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.87 | 117 | 1 | 91% | average | not teaching it |
| TREJO, ALFREDO reviews ↗ | 3.50 | 3.42 | 35 | 1 | 74% | - | not teaching it |
| PANAGIA, DAVIDE reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.35 | 25 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| STECHER, ELAYNE RUTH reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.79 | 25 | 1 | 80% | - | not teaching it |
| VALENZUELA, NALLELY reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.83 | 25 | 1 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
| MICHEL, JULIAN reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.43 | 14 · | 1 | 50% | - | not teaching it |
| TREJO, ALFREDO, III reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.40 | 10 · | 1 | 50% | - | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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In Springs
Ran in 3 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 or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: two courses in Field IV. Designed for juniors/seniors. Intensive examination of one or more special problems appropriate to comparative politics. Sections offered on regular basis, with topics announced in preceding term. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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