Introduction to Communication

Grades

2.73

Average grade awarded in COMM 10. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.015.

The registrar's own records: 1,715 grades over 15 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 15 terms ran 2.42 to 3.36.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for COMM 10 ↗

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 02 Sep 06:41: the oldest of these 10 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 TR 4:00pm-5:50pm

  Closed

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

  3.31

  this instructor · 180 grades

  211 of 225 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  lecture: open

  9 discussions, none open.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)

  • Dis 1A

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 4 over enrolled

  • Dis 1B

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled

  • Dis 1C

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 4 over enrolled

  • Dis 1D

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 4 over enrolled

  • Dis 1E

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 2 over enrolled

  • Dis 1F

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 4 over enrolled

  • Dis 1G

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 4 over enrolled

  • Dis 1H

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 3 over enrolled

  • Dis 1I

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

    Closed

    20 of 20 · 5 over 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.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.