POL SCI 186
Special Studies in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics: Immigration in the U.S.
Grades
3.75
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 186. Not a student 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. 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 10 terms ran 3.57 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- 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).
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 | Winter 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 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| COMANDUR, SAMYUKTHA M reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.87 | 15 · | 1 | 93% | - | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 3 mentions in past reviews
- 3 papers, 2 mentions in past reviews
Based on 8 reviews; source checked 7 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter 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
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Recommended requisite: course 40. Designed for juniors/seniors. Intensive examination of one or more special problems related to race, ethnicity, and politics in political science. 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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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