POL SCI 186
Special Studies in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics: Lecture 1
Lecture. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 5 days ago.
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 | Fall 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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
In Falls
Ran in 3 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
dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.
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Lec 1 TR 12:30pm-1:45pmOpen
Vargas Nunez, C.
3.75course average · 1,200 grades5 seats left. 49 of 54 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 108 and 281 a term over 7 terms, summer excluded, most recently 281 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
Lec 1 · Vargas Nunez, C. · 49 of 54 enrolled
Filled by 8 over 10 days