Fall 2026: 4 sections.
3 sections
are open.
The oldest of these readings was 83 minutes ago.
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in INF STD 289. Not a student rating: this is what
the grades were.
The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.026.
In the A range
The share who got an A minus or better: A+, A or A minus, out of every letter grade awarded in this course. Pass/no pass outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure.
95%
of the 556 letter grades
D, F or W
The share who finished with a D or an F, or withdrew. The closest thing here to a difficulty signal: it counts the people the course went badly for, which an average grade hides. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are counted separately and are not in this figure, so a no-pass is not in it either.
0.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
The share who took this pass/no pass rather than for a letter grade. A high number usually means it is popular as a GE with people protecting an average. These students are excluded from the figure at the top of this block.
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 556 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025.
Every instructor is pooled here.
›iWhat is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 3.76 to 4.00.
Historical grades for POSNER, MIRIAM, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers
reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
12
·
Fewer than 20 graded students. This estimate relies heavily on broader grade patterns, so treat it cautiously.
1
100%
-
not teaching it
›iWhy 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.
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets.
That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews
linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
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
Seminar, three and one half hours. Identification, analysis, and discussion of critical intellectual, social, and technological issues facing the profession. Topics may include (but not limited to) expert systems, literacy, electronic networks, youth at risk, information literacy, historical bibliography, preservation of electronic media, etc. May be repeated with topic change. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 4 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
Class: Library and Information Science or Information Studies Majors
Registrar's Restrictions cell.
Oldest reading: 44 hours ago.
This restriction reading needs rechecking.Sem 1Sem 3
Eligibility details need rechecking. Open section details
16 seats left.19 of 35 enrolledlow risk
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.
limited by major: Library and Information Science or Information Studies Majors: restrictions read 44 hours ago, needs refreshing; opening alerts wait up to two minutes, then state any remaining eligibility uncertainty
18 seats left.17 of 35 enrolledlow risk
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.
30 enrolledno history
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.
limited by major: Library and Information Science or Information Studies Majors: restrictions read 44 hours ago, needs refreshing; opening alerts wait up to two minutes, then state any remaining eligibility uncertainty
8 seats left.22 of 30 enrolledmedium risk
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.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections:
between 13 and
31 a term
over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently
31 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 INF STD 289 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.
Looking for more perspectives?
External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
This course runs 4 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
›iWhat 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.
dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 475. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 424 of 1067 plotted.19 of 35 enrolled at the newest reading, 83 minutes ago, with 16 left. Seats from 18 Aug 20:40 to 2 Oct 06:32, 22 to 19. dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 475 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 12:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 424 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Sem 2
· Fox, E. and Montoya, R.D.
· 17 of 35 enrolled
Freed 5 seats over about 1 month
enrolled
17 of 35 · 18 left
readings only
251715
hours read
18 Aug 20:4010 Sep 01:362 Oct 06:32
dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 475. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 424 of 1067 plotted.17 of 35 enrolled at the newest reading, 83 minutes ago, with 18 left. Seats from 18 Aug 20:40 to 2 Oct 06:32, 22 to 17. dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 475 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 12:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 424 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 475. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 424 of 1067 plotted.Seats from 18 Aug 20:40 to 2 Oct 06:32, 29 to 30. dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 475 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 12:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 424 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 475. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 424 of 1067 plotted.22 of 30 enrolled at the newest reading, 83 minutes ago, with 8 left. Seats from 18 Aug 20:40 to 2 Oct 06:32, 29 to 22. dibs read 168 of the 643 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 475 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 12:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 424 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
›iHow readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.