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COMM 220

Research Methods in Communication Science

4 units

Sections & times

Seminar.

Fall 2025: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.

Grades

4.00

Average grade awarded in COMM 220. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

100%

of the 10 letter grades

D, F or W

0.0%

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: 10 grades over 1 term, 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.

Historical grades for KERNELL, GEORGIA CHRISTINE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

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 2025
DALE, RICHARD ALAN CLARKE reviews ↗ 3.84 4.00 10 · 1 100% - not teaching it
Why Predicted is not the Raw average

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Reviews for COMM 220

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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In Falls

Ran in 1 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2021.

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

Seminar, three hours. Study of how communication science research is conducted with focus on quantitative methodology. Students gain understanding of tools used to conduct research, and experience with these tools through formulating own research ideas and projects. S/U or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2025

Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: 10 a term over 1 term, summer excluded, most recently 10 in Fall 2021. 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 2025

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.

Sem 1 · Kernell, G.C. · 3 of 15 enrolled

Unchanged over 1 minute

3 of 15 · 12 left

Both readings say 3 of 15.

25 Aug 03:0525 Aug 03:06
1 hour plotted. dibs read it.3 of 15 enrolled at the newest reading, about 1 month ago, with 12 left. Seats from 25 Aug 03:05 to 25 Aug 03:06, 3 to 3. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a count that did not move here was checked and did not move.
How readings and alerts work

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