COMM 168
Communication and Media Law
Grades
3.55
Average grade awarded in COMM 168. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
70%
of the 147 letter grades
D, F or W
0.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 147 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.38 to 3.83.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 8 · 5.4%
- A 49 · 33.3%
- A- 46 · 31.3%
- B+ 16 · 10.9%
- B 8 · 5.4%
- B- 12 · 8.2%
- C+ 2 · 1.4%
- C 5 · 3.4%
- F 1 · 0.7%
Percentages are of the 147 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIAGIOLI, MARIO reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.55 | 147 | 2 | 70% | - | 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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for COMM 168 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2022.
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, three hours. Focus on sample of most important intersections between law and communication: copyright, trademarks, freedom of speech, privacy, secrecy, surveillance, and publicity rights. Law and communication have been intertwined since introduction of book censorship and licensing in late 16th century, and blasphemy laws before that. That relationship has grown increasingly complex in time in response to technological changes in communication media, evolution of modern state forms, and changing expectations about freedom of and responsibility for both communication and information gathering. From music piracy, knock-offs of famous brands, ubiquitous presence of closed-circuit television, facial recognition software, global tracking systems, biosensors, and data mining practices, intersection between communication, media, and law has become part of our life, on scale and to extent that would have been unthinkable few years ago. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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