COMM 159
Artificial Intelligence and Society
Grades
3.63
Average grade awarded in COMM 159. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
72%
of the 373 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 373 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.46 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 87 · 23.3%
- A 129 · 34.6%
- A- 53 · 14.2%
- B+ 41 · 11.0%
- B 28 · 7.5%
- B- 12 · 3.2%
- C+ 6 · 1.6%
- C 11 · 2.9%
- C- 1 · 0.3%
- D 3 · 0.8%
- D- 1 · 0.3%
- F 1 · 0.3%
Percentages are of the 373 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAO, TAO reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 373 | 5 | 72% | very light | 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
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society is growing rapidly. Exploration of questions of what if superhuman AI is achieved, will it free humans from tedious jobs or cause mass unemployment, and how to guarantee AI safety so that it will not annihilate human civilization. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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