POL SCI 6
Introduction to Data Analysis
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 175 · 18.8%
- A 238 · 25.5%
- A- 91 · 9.8%
- B+ 67 · 7.2%
- B 95 · 10.2%
- B- 47 · 5.0%
- C+ 31 · 3.3%
- C 48 · 5.1%
- C- 34 · 3.6%
- D+ 17 · 1.8%
- D 15 · 1.6%
- D- 9 · 1.0%
- F 66 · 7.1%
- P 18 of 971
- NP 11 of 971
- I 8 of 971
- DR 1 of 971
Percentages are of the 933 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, TYSON reviews ↗ | 3.11 | 3.11 | 733 | 8 | 55% | average | not teaching it |
| 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 23 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Springs
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Springs.
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 Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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