POL SCI 50 / THIES, MICHAEL F

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How POL SCI 50 grades when THIES, MICHAEL F teaches it. POL SCI 50, every instructor THIES, MICHAEL F, every course

Grades, this instructor

2.82adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

763 letter grades across 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.04 over 1,065 letter grades.

Raw average: 2.82; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 32.8%; A+, A and A minus out of 763 letter grades.
D, F or W: 10.7%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 2.9%; 20 of 23 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+26 / 3.4%
A130 / 17%
A-94 / 12.3%
B+87 / 11.4%
B121 / 15.9%
B-65 / 8.5%
C+38 / 5%
C77 / 10.1%
C-46 / 6%
D+6 / 0.8%
D22 / 2.9%
D-4 / 0.5%
F47 / 6.2%
DR3 of 792
I3 of 792
NP3 of 792
P20 of 792

Percentages are of the 763 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR). 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, 3.04.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20212.8597 letter grades.

Winter 20222.7060 letter grades.

Fall 20222.76118 letter grades.

Winter 20232.7076 letter grades.

Fall 20232.8594 letter grades.

Winter 20242.8466 letter grades.

Fall 20242.83132 letter grades.

Fall 20252.93120 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

Open

12 seats left.

108 of 120 enrolled

Seat risk

medium 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 (6)

Dis 1FR 10:00am-10:50amclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1CR 10:00am-10:50amclosed: 20 of 20 enrolled

Dis 1BR 9:00am-9:50amopen: 1 seat left.

Dis 1AR 8:00am-8:50amopen: 2 seats left.

Dis 1DR 8:00am-8:50amopen: 3 seats left.

Dis 1ER 9:00am-9:50amopen: 6 seats left.

Every POL SCI 50 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

dibs measures outcomes. For students' experiences of the class, BruinWalk has reviews.

Reviews for THIES, MICHAEL F in POL SCI 50