Seminar.
The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 5 sections.
4 sections
are open.
The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U:
310 records over
5 terms.
In the A range
The share who got an A minus or better: A+, A or A minus, out of every letter grade awarded in this course. Pass/no pass outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure.
-
no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
The share who finished with a D or an F, or withdrew. The closest thing here to a difficulty signal: it counts the people the course went badly for, which an average grade hides. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure, so a no-pass is not in it either.
-
no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
The share who took this pass/no pass rather than for a letter grade. A high number usually means it is popular as a GE with people protecting an average. These students are excluded from the figure at the top of this block.
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025.
Every instructor is pooled here.
›iWhat is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for COVINGTON, KENYA L, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
S
189 of 189
Counts are out of 189 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
›iHow 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
Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers
reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
“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.
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets.
That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews
linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
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
Seminar, two hours; outside study, two hours. Recommended requisite: course 210. Limited to MPP students. First course of year-long sequence designed to ensure that students and their teams are fully prepared to launch their projects at start of winter quarter. Students form teams that are assigned to seminars and instructors, identify clients, select and refine policy questions motivating their projects, develop and refine basic work plans, learn about various methods of data collection. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
Class: Public Policy Graduate Students
Registrar's Restrictions cell.
Oldest reading: 2 days ago.
This restriction reading needs rechecking.Sem 1Sem 2Sem 3Sem 4
Eligibility details are not fully read. Missing text does not mean there are no requirements. Open section details
43 seats left.47 of 90 enrolledlow risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
limited by major: Public Policy Graduate Students: restrictions read 2 days ago, needs refreshing; opening alerts wait up to two minutes, then state any remaining eligibility uncertainty
23 seats left.2 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
limited by major: Public Policy Graduate Students: restrictions read 2 days ago, needs refreshing; opening alerts wait up to two minutes, then state any remaining eligibility uncertainty
23 seats left.2 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
limited by major: Public Policy Graduate Students: restrictions read 2 days ago, needs refreshing; opening alerts wait up to two minutes, then state any remaining eligibility uncertainty
23 seats left.2 of 25 enrolledhigh risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
limited by major: Public Policy Graduate Students: restrictions read 2 days ago, needs refreshing; opening alerts wait up to two minutes, then state any remaining eligibility uncertainty
no enrollment count published-
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections:
between 57 and
65 a term
over 5 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
What taking PUB PLC 298A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.
Looking for more perspectives?
External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
This course runs 4 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
›iWhat 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.
Sem 1
· Covington, K.L., Stoll, M.A., and Weisburst, E.K.
· 47 of 90 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 8.
enrolled
47 of 90 · 43 left
readings only until 8 Sep
514736
hours read
18 Aug 18:409 Sep 19:111 Oct 19:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 385. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 505 of 1058 plotted.47 of 90 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 43 left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 1 Oct 19:42, 39 to 47. dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 385 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 19:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 505 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
enrolled
2 of 25 · 23 left
Both readings say 2 of 25.
readings only until 8 Sep
721
hours read
18 Aug 18:409 Sep 19:111 Oct 19:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 385. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 505 of 1058 plotted.2 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 23 left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 1 Oct 19:42, 2 to 2. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 385 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 19:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 505 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 2.
enrolled
2 of 25 · 23 left
readings only until 8 Sep
620
hours read
18 Aug 18:409 Sep 19:111 Oct 19:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 385. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 505 of 1058 plotted.2 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 23 left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 1 Oct 19:42, 0 to 2. dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 385 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 19:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 505 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back.
enrolled
2 of 25 · 23 left
readings only until 8 Sep
620
hours read
18 Aug 18:409 Sep 19:111 Oct 19:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 385. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 505 of 1058 plotted.2 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 23 left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 1 Oct 19:42, 2 to 2. dibs read 168 of the 553 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 385 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 19:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 505 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
›iHow 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.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.