COMM 10
Introduction to Communication
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 5 minutes ago.
Grades
2.73
Average grade awarded in COMM 10. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
26%
of the 1,715 letter grades
D, F or W
11.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 1,715 grades over 15 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 15 terms ran 2.42 to 3.36.
Historical grades for JONES, GABE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 37 · 20.6%
- A 44 · 24.4%
- A- 23 · 12.8%
- B+ 22 · 12.2%
- B 19 · 10.6%
- B- 11 · 6.1%
- C+ 7 · 3.9%
- C 6 · 3.3%
- C- 2 · 1.1%
- D+ 2 · 1.1%
- D 2 · 1.1%
- D- 1 · 0.6%
- F 4 · 2.2%
- I 13 of 193
Percentages are of the 180 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 2026 |
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| SUMAN, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 2.67 | 2.67 | 1,040 | 10 | 23% | - | not teaching it |
| SUMAN, MICHAEL WESLEY reviews ↗ | 2.63 | 2.62 | 495 | 4 | 22% | - | not teaching it |
| JONES, GABE reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.36 | 180 | 1 | 58% | - | Closed by the department |
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 19 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 28 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 4 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
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to study of interpersonal and mass communication using interdisciplinary approach. Exploration of basic methods and theoretical perspectives that social scientists and others use to study interpersonal and mass communication, and basic concepts used to describe and explain that communication. Historical overview of each major mass media. Study of significant current topical issues related to means of communication that reach large numbers of people. Letter grading.
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 : the oldest of these 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 4:00pm-5:50pmClosed by the department
Jones, G., Dash, A., Lin, L., and Lacsamana, C.V.
3.31predicted, this instructor · 180 grades191 enrolled no history
9 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)
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Dis 1A
M 11:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2238
Closed by the department25 enrolled
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Dis 1B
M 12:00pm-12:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Closed by the department17 enrolled
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Dis 1C
M 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Closed by the department22 enrolled
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Dis 1D
T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Bunche Hall 3170
Closed by the department22 enrolled
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Dis 1E
T 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2232
Closed by the department22 enrolled
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Dis 1F
T 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1234
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2325
Closed by the department18 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2232
Closed by the department22 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2232
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 120 and 204 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 180 in Winter 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 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 · Jones, G., Dash, A., Lin, L., and Lacsamana, C.V. · 191 enrolled
Freed 25 seats over about 2 months
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.