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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 2 hours ago.

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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

-

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 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% - 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.

Reviews for COMM 10

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.

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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

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 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

  • Lec 1

    TR 4:00pm-5:50pm

    Closed by the department

    Lecture: 172 enrolled

    Jones, G., Dash, A., Lin, L., and Lacsamana, C.V.

    3.31

    Predicted GPA

    Historical records for JONES, GABE; 180 letter grades
    no history
    9 discussions, none open. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 9 discussions
    • Dis 1A

      M 11:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2238

      Closed by the department

      22 enrolled

    • Dis 1B

      M 12:00pm-12:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343

      Closed by the department

      16 enrolled

    • Dis 1C

      M 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343

      Closed by the department

      20 enrolled

    • Dis 1D

      T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Bunche Hall 3170

      Closed by the department

      22 enrolled

    • Dis 1E

      T 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2232

      Closed by the department

      19 enrolled

    • Dis 1F

      T 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1234

      Closed by the department

      21 enrolled

    • Dis 1G

      R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2325

      Closed by the department

      14 enrolled

    • Dis 1H

      R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2232

      Closed by the department

      21 enrolled

    • Dis 1I

      R 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2232

      Closed by the department

      17 enrolled

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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Community guidelines

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. · 172 enrolled

Nothing read since 18 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, freed 44 seats.

172 of 225 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:3217 Sep 10:0818 Oct 07:43 · 2 hours ago
Checked 168 of the 630 hours with hourly history, 27%. No reading was recorded in 462 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 22 Sep, which is the other 854 of 1484 plotted.172 of 225 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 18 Oct 07:43, 216 to 172. Checks are not continuous monitoring. Changes between checks may be missed.
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.