POL SCI 60
Ethics and Governance
Grades
3.76
Average grade awarded in POL SCI 60. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 287 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
14 of 16 students passed
The registrar's own records: 287 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.71 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 148 · 51.6%
- A 68 · 23.7%
- A- 22 · 7.7%
- B+ 19 · 6.6%
- B 8 · 2.8%
- B- 11 · 3.8%
- C+ 4 · 1.4%
- C 4 · 1.4%
- F 3 · 1.0%
- P 14 of 304
- NP 2 of 304
- I 1 of 304
Percentages are of the 287 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOHMANN, SUSANNE reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.76 | 287 | 4 | 83% | heavy | 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.
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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 8 reviewers
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 10 reviewers
Read from 20 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for POL SCI 60 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 Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 3 Winters.
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 or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). To study question of can't we all just get along, students play games of cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and competition and examine whether and how diversity, disagreement, and democracy influence game play, to understand under what conditions diversity feeds productively or counterproductively into group effort. Development of self- and other-awareness of emergent properties of disagreement to appreciate how different kinds of social organization promote or undercut social cognition and collective action. Such understanding needs to develop bottom-up through experiential and interactive learning, active and analytical learning, systems thinking, and real-world application. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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