PUB AFF 30
Comparative Analysis of Wealth, Policy, and Power
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in PUB AFF 30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 590 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 590 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 2.95 to 3.76.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 60 · 10.2%
- A 282 · 47.8%
- A- 91 · 15.4%
- B+ 56 · 9.5%
- B 44 · 7.5%
- B- 31 · 5.3%
- 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 of 598
- I 6 of 598
Percentages are of the 590 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTENSEN, DARIN EUGENE reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.66 | 578 | 4 | 74% | very light | not teaching it |
| MYNHIER, LAURELYN GAYE reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 2.95 | 12 · | 1 | 58% | - | 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 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 20 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for PUB AFF 30 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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, 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.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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