Principles of Economics

Grades

2.97

Average grade awarded in ECON 1. 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 0.008.

The registrar's own records: 5,990 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.52 to 3.67.

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 ECON 1 ↗

What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for ECON 1, 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.

From the registrar's catalog

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

Sections in Summer Session A 2026

Seat counts as of 02 Sep 03:07: the oldest of these 2 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

• Lec 1 TR 10:45am-12:50pm

  Open

  Boswell, K.S.

  3.24

  this instructor · 721 grades

  48 seats left. 172 of 220 enrolled - 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.

  not checked yet
• Lec 2 TR 10:45am-12:50pm

  Open

  McDevitt, E.P. and Basin, T.

  2.86

  this instructor · 448 grades

  172 seats left. 48 of 220 enrolled - 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.

  not checked yet

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 87 and 553 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 284 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Summer Session A 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.