COMM 1
Principles of Oral Communication
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 769 · 27.1%
- A 1,300 · 45.9%
- A- 448 · 15.8%
- B+ 116 · 4.1%
- B 79 · 2.8%
- B- 41 · 1.4%
- C+ 22 · 0.8%
- C 27 · 1.0%
- C- 8 · 0.3%
- D+ 3 · 0.1%
- D 1 · 0.0%
- D- 2 · 0.1%
- F 18 · 0.6%
- P 32 of 2,894
- NP 1 of 2,894
- I 27 of 2,894
Percentages are of the 2,834 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Spring 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 | not teaching it |
| 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.
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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 Spring 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.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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, 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 Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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