POL SCI 40 / THOMPSON, DANIEL

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How POL SCI 40 grades when THOMPSON, DANIEL teaches it. POL SCI 40, every instructor THOMPSON, DANIEL, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.54adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

955 letter grades across 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2023. The course pools every instructor at 3.50 over 3,402 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.54; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 67.9%; A+, A and A minus out of 955 letter grades.
D, F or W: 2.3%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 1.5%; 13 of 15 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+34 / 3.6%
A481 / 50.4%
A-133 / 13.9%
B+108 / 11.3%
B67 / 7%
B-36 / 3.8%
C+36 / 3.8%
C25 / 2.6%
C-13 / 1.4%
D+5 / 0.5%
D4 / 0.4%
D-8 / 0.8%
F5 / 0.5%
I1 of 971
NP2 of 971
P13 of 971

Percentages are of the 955 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from GPA.

Term by term

Raw averages for the terms in this record. A missing term does not establish that this instructor did not teach it. Summer sessions are included when present.

Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.50.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20213.72173 letter grades.

Fall 20223.44347 letter grades.

Summer Session A 20233.6435 letter grades.

Fall 20233.53400 letter grades.

Is one term a guide to the next?

Across the measured corpus, the same course and instructor's term averages were strongly correlated, including terms several years apart. That is why the adjustment does not weight recent terms more heavily. This is a dataset-wide pattern, not a promise about this instructor's next class.

Teaching it in Fall 2026

Section

Lec 1

MW 11:00am-12:15pm

Seats

Closed

240 of 240 enrolled

Seat risk

high risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (12)

Dis 1EW 5:00pm-5:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1JW 4:00pm-4:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1AW 4:00pm-4:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1CW 6:00pm-6:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1FW 6:00pm-6:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1GW 4:00pm-4:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1HW 5:00pm-5:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1KW 5:00pm-5:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1LW 6:00pm-6:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1BW 5:00pm-5:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1DW 4:00pm-4:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1IW 6:00pm-6:50pmclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Every POL SCI 40 section and instructor

Reading these figures

Raw is the mean of the recorded letter grades. The adjusted historical GPA pulls an instructor's average toward the course's adjusted average, which itself uses a department prior. It is a comparison aid, not a calibrated prediction or a student rating. Small samples carry more uncertainty. All recorded instructor roles are included, and a section is counted only once for this instructor. Grades cannot establish workload or explain why outcomes differed.

What students say

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