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POL SCI 40 · Lec 1

Introduction to American Politics

Fall 2026Thompson, D.5 units

Seats, time, final and grades

Seats

Closed.

240 of 240 enrolled, lecture and all discussions summed.

Meets

MW 11:00am-12:15pm

Lecture only. You also attend a discussion, listed below.

Final

None on the page dibs read

No exam time on the page dibs read. That is not the registrar saying there is no final.

Grades

3.54
predicted, this instructor · 955 grades

955 letter grades, Thompson, D..

Read 2 hours ago. The latest refresh is overdue. Seats and instructors may have changed since. Check the registrar before enrolling.

dibs has seen this section open 18 times since 17 August. The last time was 30 September. 5 of those were readings where the capacity figure moved and the enrolled count did not, so dibs could not tell whether a seat existed and did not send an alert.

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Before you can enroll

From the registrar limited early, then open

Political Science undergraduate class discussion sections will NOT meet prior to the first lecture meeting. Seats are held for entering students who enroll through New Student Orientation sessions beginning July 2, 2026. New student restrictions will be lifted on September 15, 2026 at 8 a.m.

The limit stands until 15 September, and lifts then. dibs still counts this class as one you can take, but not yet.

Discussions

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so the seat figure above is the sum across all of them and can read open while every discussion you could actually join is full.

12 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

No discussion is open. Whatever the lecture reads, there is currently nothing here to enroll in.
  • Dis 1A

    W 4:00pm-4:50pm

    Hinton, L.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1B

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm

    Hinton, L.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1C

    W 6:00pm-6:50pm

    Hinton, L.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1D

    W 4:00pm-4:50pm

    Young, J.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1E

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm

    Young, J.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1F

    W 6:00pm-6:50pm

    Young, J.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1G

    W 4:00pm-4:50pm

    Wilson, D.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1H

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm

    Wilson, D.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1I

    W 6:00pm-6:50pm

    Wilson, D.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1J

    W 4:00pm-4:50pm

    McClinton, K.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1K

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm

    McClinton, K.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1L

    W 6:00pm-6:50pm

    McClinton, K.

    Closed.

When it meets

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Meets: MW 11:00am-12:15pm

Broad Art Center 2160E

Grades

3.54
predicted, this instructor · 955 grades

Of the 7 other people in the grade record for POL SCI 40, the 2 with the most grades: TAUSANOVITCH, CHRISTOPHER NICOLAS at 3.39 over 1,506 grades and PAYSON, JULIA at 3.68 over 699 grades.

A range
68%
P/NP
2%
D/F/W
2.3%

Full grade history for POL SCI 40

What students say

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast it fills. For what the class is actually like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Workload, very light. 4.6 of 5 for Daniel Thompson, where 5 is lightest. Read 30 days ago.

dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 140 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.

POL SCI 40 reviews for Daniel Thompson Reviews for all professors of POL SCI 40

Will it still be here

high risk chance of closing before your enrollment pass.

Final enrollment per term from four years of grade data. Summer excluded: different population, different pass structure.

  • 17621F
  • 28122W
  • 35822F
  • 39923W
  • 40123F
  • 28224W
  • 29524S
  • 34224F
  • 28725W
  • 41825F
Enrollment by term: 21F 176, 22W 281, 22F 358, 23W 399, 23F 401, 24W 282, 24S 295, 24F 342, 25W 287, 25F 418

Peak 418 · most recent 25F at 418

Seats over time

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 50.

18 times reopened
240 of 240 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:021 Oct 15:33 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 519 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 351. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 565 of 1084 plotted.240 of 240 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 15:33, 190 to 240. dibs read 168 of the 519 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 351 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 01:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 565 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.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist. Flat between dots joins recorded counts; changes between reads may be missed. The line starts when dibs first saw this section rather than reaching back before it existed. The last one is the last time dibs read this section, moved or not, and that was 2 hours ago. It is where the line stops, not where the count is now.

Show the readings (54)
Recorded Enrolled Capacity Status Waitlist Hours read
1 Oct 15:33 240 240 closed - 6 of 17
30 Sep 23:12 240 240 closed - 2 of 5
30 Sep 19:42 239 240 open - 3 of 8
30 Sep 12:42 235 240 open - 4 of 11
30 Sep 02:02 240 240 closed - 2 of 5
29 Sep 22:32 238 240 open - 72 of 239
20 Sep 00:52 240 240 closed - 7 of 18
19 Sep 07:22 239 240 open - 30 of 93
15 Sep 11:32 240 240 closed - 4 of 11
15 Sep 01:12 220 240 open - 2 of 5
14 Sep 21:42 221 240 open - 3 of 7
14 Sep 15:02 223 240 open - 2 of 5
14 Sep 11:32 222 240 open - 20 of 58
12 Sep 02:32 223 240 open - 2 of 4
11 Sep 23:52 220 240 open - 2 of 2
11 Sep 22:02 223 240 open - 16 of 34
10 Sep 13:40 220 240 open - 7 of 13
10 Sep 01:40 221 231 open - 1 of 4, 3 no hourly record
9 Sep 22:40 220 231 open - no hourly record
9 Sep 12:40 219 231 open - no hourly record
9 Sep 01:40 220 231 open - no hourly record
9 Sep 00:40 220 220 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 22:40 220 231 open - no hourly record
5 Sep 02:40 220 220 closed - no hourly record
3 Sep 23:40 210 220 open - no hourly record
3 Sep 21:40 210 211 open - no hourly record
3 Sep 11:27 210 220 open - no hourly record
28 Aug 01:40 210 211 open - no hourly record
27 Aug 22:40 211 211 closed - no hourly record
27 Aug 21:40 210 211 open - no hourly record
27 Aug 20:40 211 211 closed - no hourly record
27 Aug 19:40 210 211 open - no hourly record
26 Aug 00:40 211 211 closed - no hourly record
25 Aug 22:40 201 211 open - no hourly record
25 Aug 21:55 211 211 closed - no hourly record
25 Aug 20:55 201 211 open - no hourly record
25 Aug 20:40 211 211 closed - no hourly record
24 Aug 10:55 201 211 open - no hourly record
22 Aug 00:55 200 200 closed - no hourly record
21 Aug 23:55 199 200 open - no hourly record
21 Aug 22:55 200 200 closed - no hourly record
21 Aug 21:55 199 200 open - no hourly record
21 Aug 20:55 200 200 closed - no hourly record
21 Aug 00:55 199 200 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 22:55 190 200 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 21:55 200 200 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 20:55 190 200 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 19:55 200 200 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 18:55 190 200 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 17:55 200 200 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 14:55 190 200 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 13:55 190 190 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 11:55 190 200 open - no hourly record
17 Aug 12:32 190 190 closed - -
How 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.

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