Advanced Social Research Methods in Health

Grades

3.80

Average grade awarded in COM HLT 212. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.062.

The registrar's own records: 83 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.76 to 3.88.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for COM HLT 212 ↗

What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before COM HLT 212. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for BIOSTAT 201B and BIOSTAT 406, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

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

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

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 01 Sep 21:40: the oldest of these 2 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 T 1:00pm-4:50pm

  Open

  Pirtle, W.N. and an unnamed TA

  3.80

  this instructor · 11 grades · small sample

  7 seats left. 13 of 20 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: Graduate Students: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held

  1 discussion, all open.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to the discussion below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (1)

  • Lab 1A

    F 1:00pm-2:50pm · Public Health, School of 71257

    Open

    7 seats left.

    13 of 20 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 18 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 16 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.