COMM 10
Introduction to Communication
Lecture and discussion.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 lecture and 1 discussion. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | - | Open, 913 seats left |
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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 19 mentions in past reviews
- 1 paper, 5 mentions in past reviews
Based on 28 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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 Summer Session A 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open913 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 86 of 999 enrolled
Instructor
Jones, G. and Lin, L.
3.31Predicted GPA
Historical records for JONES, GABE; 180 letter gradesSeat risk
-1 discussion, all open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 1 discussion
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Open
913 seats left.
86 of 999 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 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 · Jones, G. and Lin, L. · 86 of 999 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 86 of 999.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.