COMM 1
Principles of Oral Communication
Lecture.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 30 days ago.
Grades
3.81
Average grade awarded in COMM 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 2,834 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
97% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,834 grades over 16 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 16 terms ran 3.68 to 3.93.
Historical grades for LITVINSKY, MARINA LITVINSKY, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 143 · 82.2%
- A 24 · 13.8%
- A- 4 · 2.3%
- B+ 1 · 0.6%
- B 2 · 1.1%
- P 1 of 175
Percentages are of the 174 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HURWITZ, BRIAN reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.90 | 810 | 12 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
| MCLEAN, CELIA reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.59 | 576 | 13 | 73% | very light | not teaching it |
| ARBABZADAH, NUSHIN reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 439 | 13 | 94% | very light | not teaching it |
| JONES, GABE reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.82 | 351 | 6 | 91% | very light | not teaching it |
| LITVINSKY, MARINA LITVINSKY reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.98 | 174 | 4 | 98% | very light | Open, 979 seats left |
| CARPENTER, ROBERT MARK reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.98 | 160 | 5 | 98% | very light | not teaching it |
| JONES, BELZU reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.68 | 154 | 3 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| KICENSKI, KARYL KRISTINE reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.50 | 94 | 3 | 68% | average | not teaching it |
| HURWITZ, BRIAN SCOTT reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.93 | 76 | 3 | 96% | - | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before COMM 1. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for COMM 1 in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2, 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Examination of foundations of communication and public speaking. Consideration of number of basic theories related to study of communication and development of skills to enable composition and delivery of speeches in accordance with specific rhetorical concepts. Improvement of ability to analyze, organize, and critically think about communicative messages while becoming better equipped to articulate ideas. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 MW 10:45am-12:50pmOpen3.96predicted, this instructor · 174 grades
979 seats left. 20 of 999 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 26 and 30 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 28 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 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 · Litvinsky, M.L. · 20 of 999 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 20 of 999.
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.