COMM 160
Political Communication
Grades
3.29
Average grade awarded in COMM 160. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
54%
of the 319 letter grades
D, F or W
5.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 319 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 3.07 to 3.48.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 35 · 11.0%
- A 85 · 26.6%
- A- 53 · 16.6%
- B+ 40 · 12.5%
- B 38 · 11.9%
- B- 21 · 6.6%
- C+ 11 · 3.4%
- C 10 · 3.1%
- C- 9 · 2.8%
- D+ 3 · 0.9%
- D 5 · 1.6%
- D- 3 · 0.9%
- F 6 · 1.9%
- P 1 of 322
- I 2 of 322
Percentages are of the 319 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KERNELL, GEORGIA CHRISTINE reviews ↗ | 3.23 | 3.23 | 235 | 3 | 52% | - | not teaching it |
| GROELING, TIM JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.48 | 84 | 1 | 61% | - | 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
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 3 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2022. That is 3 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 2024.
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. Study of nature and function of communication in political sphere; analysis of contemporary and historical communications within established political institutions; state papers; deliberative discourses; electoral campaigns. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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