ECON 1
Principles of Economics
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 10 discussions. 1 lecture and 8 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 14 hours ago.
Grades
2.97
Average grade awarded in ECON 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
39%
of the 5,990 letter grades
D, F or W
9.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
69% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 5,990 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.52 to 3.67.
Historical grades for SITARSKI, JACK ANDREW, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROJAS, RANDALL R reviews ↗ | 2.94 | 2.94 | 2,363 | 10 | 41% | light | not teaching it |
| OHANIAN, LEE reviews ↗ | 2.96 | 2.96 | 1,642 | 5 | 32% | light | not teaching it |
| BOSWELL, KIMBERLY SASHA-GAYE reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.25 | 721 | 2 | 52% | very light | not teaching it |
| OSEI TWUMASI, OLIVIA IRENA reviews ↗ | 2.98 | 2.98 | 614 | 3 | 41% | very light | not teaching it |
| MCDEVITT, EDWARD P reviews ↗ | 2.86 | 2.86 | 448 | 2 | 34% | - | not teaching it |
| MARTNER, ANTONIO reviews ↗ | 2.79 | 2.77 | 170 | 2 | 28% | very light | not teaching it |
| GUERRERO AMEZAGA, MARIA ELENA reviews ↗ | 2.85 | 2.84 | 132 | 1 | 31% | - | not teaching it |
| MOLLIGO, PATRICK ANTHONY reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.36 | 98 | 2 | 51% | - | not teaching it |
| CONVERY, PATRICK DENNIS reviews ↗ | 2.61 | 2.54 | 83 | 1 | 39% | very light | not teaching it |
| FERNANDES FIEDLER, FILIPE reviews ↗ | 3.11 | 3.20 | 27 | 1 | 48% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 28 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 2 mentions in past reviews
- 1 paper, 4 mentions in past reviews
- 7 problem sets, 17 mentions in past reviews
- 2 projects, 3 mentions in past reviews
- 3 group works, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 222 reviews; source checked 6 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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; discussion, one hour. Introduction to principles of economic analysis, economic institutions, and issues of economic policy. Emphasis on allocation of resources and distribution of income through price system. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open91 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 309 of 400 enrolled
Instructor
Sitarski, J.A. and McDevitt, E.P.
2.98Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 5,990 letter gradesSeat risk
medium risk10 discussions, 8 open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 10 discussions
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Waitlist
0 of 2 places taken.
40 of 40 enrolled
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Open
10 seats left.
30 of 40 enrolled
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Open
22 seats left.
18 of 40 enrolled
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Open
12 seats left.
28 of 40 enrolled
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Waitlist
0 of 2 places taken.
40 of 40 enrolled
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Open
16 seats left.
24 of 40 enrolled
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Open
5 seats left.
35 of 40 enrolled
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Open
9 seats left.
31 of 40 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
39 of 40 enrolled
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Open
16 seats left.
24 of 40 enrolled
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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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ECON 1 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
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.
Lec 1 · Sitarski, J.A. and McDevitt, E.P. · 309 of 400 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 11 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 81.
How readings and alerts work
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