POL SCI 6
Introduction to Data Analysis
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. 1 lecture and 5 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
3.10
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 6. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
54%
of the 933 letter grades
D, F or W
11.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
62% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 933 grades over 12 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 12 terms ran 2.67 to 3.32.
Historical grades for ROBERTS, TYSON, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 126 · 17.2%
- A 206 · 28.1%
- A- 74 · 10.1%
- B+ 47 · 6.4%
- B 70 · 9.5%
- B- 36 · 4.9%
- C+ 25 · 3.4%
- C 37 · 5.0%
- C- 30 · 4.1%
- D+ 13 · 1.8%
- D 10 · 1.4%
- D- 9 · 1.2%
- F 50 · 6.8%
- P 15 of 761
- NP 9 of 761
- I 3 of 761
- DR 1 of 761
Percentages are of the 733 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| ROBERTS, TYSON reviews ↗ | 3.11 | 3.11 | 733 | 8 | 55% | average | Open, 13 seats left |
| HAZLETT, CHAD J reviews ↗ | 3.12 | 3.13 | 104 | 1 | 51% | average | not teaching it |
| LIANG, SIYU reviews ↗ | 2.81 | 2.72 | 54 | 2 | 35% | - | not teaching it |
| HAMILTON, JENNIFER ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.29 | 42 | 1 | 62% | - | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 4 reviewers
- 4 quizzes, said by 4 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 5 reviewers
- 4 problem sets, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 2 reviewers
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 112 reviews 24 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 4 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
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Not open for credit to students with credit for course 6R. Introduction to collection and analysis of political data, with emphasis on application of statistical reasoning to study of relationships among political variables. Use of computer as aid in analyzing data from various fields of political science, among them comparative politics, international relations, American politics, and public administration. P/NP or 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 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 9:30am-10:45amOpen3.11predicted, this instructor · 733 grades
13 seats left. 107 of 120 enrolled medium risk
6 discussions, 5 open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 1A
R 8:00am-8:50am · Bunche Hall 2178
Open3 seats left.
17 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1B
R 9:00am-9:50am · Bunche Hall 2178
Open3 seats left.
17 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1C
R 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 2178
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
R 8:00am-8:50am · Haines Hall A28
Open3 seats left.
17 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
R 9:00am-9:50am · Haines Hall 122
Open2 seats left.
18 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
R 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall 122
Open2 seats left.
18 of 20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 85 and 111 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 107 in Winter 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking POL SCI 6 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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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 · Roberts, T. · 107 of 120 enrolled
Filled by 27 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.
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.