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PUB AFF 30

Comparative Analysis of Wealth, Policy, and Power

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of strategic interactions that give rise to social problems around world, what can be done to address them, and how different polities have tried (and sometimes failed) to mount effective response. Applications include climate change, antivaccination movement, protest and repression, war and formation of states, corruption, and human and drug trafficking. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.65
n = 590 · 5 terms · ± 0.022
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 17322W
  • 16923W
  • 12024S
  • 12425S
Enrolment by term: 22W 173, 23W 169, 24S 120, 25S 124
Peak 173 Most recent 124 in 25S 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 60 · 10.0%
  • A 282 · 47.2%
  • A- 91 · 15.2%
  • B+ 56 · 9.4%
  • B 44 · 7.4%
  • B- 31 · 5.2%
  • C+ 12 · 2.0%
  • C 6 · 1.0%
  • C- 3 · 0.5%
  • D 1 · 0.2%
  • D- 1 · 0.2%
  • F 3 · 0.5%
  • P 2 · 0.3%
  • I 6 · 1.0%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
CHRISTENSEN, DARIN EUGENE 3.66 3.66 578 4 74%
MYNHIER, LAURELYN GAYE 3.31 2.95 12 small sample 1 58%

“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.

By term