PUB AFF 60
Using Data to Learn about Society: Introduction to Empirical Research and Statistics
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. 1 lecture and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 65 minutes ago.
Grades
3.51
Average grade awarded in PUB AFF 60. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
69%
of the 771 letter grades
D, F or W
3.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 771 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.24 to 3.65.
Historical grades for PHILLIPS, MEREDITH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 59 · 12.7%
- A 194 · 41.6%
- A- 65 · 13.9%
- B+ 37 · 7.9%
- B 43 · 9.2%
- B- 20 · 4.3%
- C+ 12 · 2.6%
- C 9 · 1.9%
- C- 6 · 1.3%
- D+ 3 · 0.6%
- D 6 · 1.3%
- F 12 · 2.6%
- P 3 of 471
- NP 1 of 471
- I 1 of 471
Percentages are of the 466 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 | Fall 2026 |
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| PHILLIPS, MEREDITH reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.48 | 466 | 5 | 68% | light | Open, 11 seats left |
| LOYA, JOSE CARLOS reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.55 | 305 | 4 | 70% | very light | 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 Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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 hours; discussion, two hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for Economics 41, Political Science 6, Statistics 10, 12, 13, or 15. Introduction to statistics through examination of topics of public interest. Familiarization with research design principles and hands-on data analysis using statistical software. Students learn how to find and organize quantitative data; summarize, display, and interpret data; draw inferences from samples (including understanding margins of error, standard errors, and confidence intervals); test hypotheses about associations between two variables (including tests of proportion, t-tests, chi-squared, correlation); and communicate findings to lay audience. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45amOpen3.48predicted, this instructor · 466 grades
11 seats left. 89 of 100 enrolled medium risk
4 discussions, 3 open: Dis 1A, W 10:00am-11:50am, Dis 1B, W 12:00pm-1:50pm, and Dis 1D, W 4:00pm-5:50pm.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
W 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 4357
Open2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1B
W 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 4357
Open5 seats left.
20 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1C
W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 4357
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 4:00pm-5:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 5147
Open4 seats left.
21 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 56 and 109 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 59 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Phillips, M. · 89 of 100 enrolled
Filled by 35 over about 1 month
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
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