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COM HLT 484

Risk Communications

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture.

Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 33 minutes ago.

Grades

4.00

Average grade awarded in COM HLT 484. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

100%

of the 18 letter grades

D, F or W

0.0%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

-

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 18 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

No summer session is in that record.

The table below splits them.

Historical grades for GARFIN, DANA ROSE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

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
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
GLIK, DEBORAH C reviews ↗ 3.97 4.00 18 · 1 100% - 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.

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Reviews for COM HLT 484

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.

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What comes first

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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 Spring 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. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Spring 2022.

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; fieldwork, one hour. Requisites: courses 210, 211A, and 211B, or prior public health and behavioral sciences courses. Risk communication theory, research, and practice, including social and psychological bases of population risk perceptions, media theories, and how risk is portrayed in media. Environmental, product safety, food-borne and infectious diseases, disasters, and bioterrorism communication. Competencies: understanding everyday and emergency risk communication principles, creating valid risk communication messages and materials, working proactively with new media. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: 18 a term over 1 term, summer excluded, most recently 18 in Spring 2022. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking COM HLT 484 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 · Garfin, D.R. · 17 of 20 enrolled

Freed 3 seats over about 1 month

17 of 20 · 3 left
18 Aug 18:419 Sep 20:561 Oct 23:12
dibs read 168 of the 517 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 349. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 545 of 1062 plotted.17 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 33 minutes ago, with 3 left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:41 to 1 Oct 23:12, 20 to 17. dibs read 168 of the 517 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 349 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 11:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 545 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.
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.