URBN PL M208C
Applied Research Design: Dissertation and Thesis Proposal
Also listed as SOC WLF M258: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.90
Average grade awarded in URBN PL M208C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 9 · 90.0%
- B 1 · 10.0%
Percentages are of the 10 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANVILLE, MICHAEL K reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.90 | 10 · | 1 | 90% | - | 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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In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2022.
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
(Formerly numbered 208C.) (Same as Social Welfare M258.) Seminar, three hours. Required of all PhD students who have passed their field examinations but have not yet advanced to candidacy and all MURP students completing their thesis capstone option. Advanced research design course that guides students in selecting problem/question to study, reviewing previous research on problem/question, framing specific research questions/hypotheses, and selecting methodology and plan for testing hypotheses. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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