POL SCI 140B / JAMES, SCOTT CURTIS

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How POL SCI 140B grades when JAMES, SCOTT CURTIS teaches it. POL SCI 140B, every instructor JAMES, SCOTT CURTIS, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.51adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

919 letter grades across 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.49 over 960 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.51; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 66.4%; A+, A and A minus out of 919 letter grades.
D, F or W: 3%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 0.8%; 5 of 7 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+73 / 7.9%
A357 / 38.8%
A-180 / 19.6%
B+117 / 12.7%
B92 / 10%
B-28 / 3%
C+22 / 2.4%
C14 / 1.5%
C-8 / 0.9%
D+3 / 0.3%
D2 / 0.2%
D-5 / 0.5%
F18 / 2%
I24 of 950
NP2 of 950
P5 of 950

Percentages are of the 919 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, 3.49.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20213.2698 letter grades.

Winter 20223.5280 letter grades.

Fall 20223.54101 letter grades.

Winter 20233.5095 letter grades.

Fall 20233.74111 letter grades.

Winter 20243.56107 letter grades.

Fall 20243.3397 letter grades.

Winter 20253.65113 letter grades.

Fall 20253.43117 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

TR 12:30pm-1:45pm

Seats

Open

20 seats left.

100 of 120 enrolled

Seat risk

medium risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (6)

Dis 1AR 4:00pm-4:50pmopen: 2 seats left.

Dis 1CR 6:00pm-6:50pmopen: 2 seats left.

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

Dis 1DF 8:00am-8:50amopen: 10 seats left.

Dis 1EF 9:00am-9:50amopen: 3 seats left.

Dis 1FF 10:00am-10:50amopen: 3 seats left.

Every POL SCI 140B 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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