POL SCI 186
Special Studies in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics: Lecture 1
Grades
3.75
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 186. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 1,200 letter grades
D, F or W
1.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
3 of 5 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,200 grades over 10 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 10 terms ran 3.57 to 3.85.
- A+ 223 · 18.6%
- A 594 · 49.5%
- A- 179 · 14.9%
- B+ 74 · 6.2%
- B 76 · 6.3%
- B- 16 · 1.3%
- C+ 6 · 0.5%
- C 13 · 1.1%
- C- 5 · 0.4%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 11 · 0.9%
- P 3 of 1,217
- NP 2 of 1,217
- I 12 of 1,217
Percentages are of the 1,200 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MASUOKA, NATALIE REMI reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.66 | 337 | 3 | 74% | average | not teaching it |
| FRASURE, LORRIE reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.82 | 317 | 3 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| DE LA VEGA, IZUL M reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 282 | 3 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
| WAKNIN, SONNI reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.81 | 120 | 1 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| HERNDON, MICHAEL ALAN reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.81 | 91 | 2 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| PANAGIA, DAVIDE reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.55 | 23 | 1 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| NGUY, JOYCE reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.98 | 15 · small sample | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| COMANDUR, SAMYUKTHA M reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.87 | 15 · small sample | 1 | 93% | - | 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.
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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.
From the registrar's catalog
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