POL SCI 40 Dis 1A

Seats

Closed.

20 of 20 enrolled.

Read 3 hours ago. The latest refresh is overdue. Seats and instructors may have changed since. Check the registrar before enrolling.

Its lecture reads closed (240 of 240 enrolled): you attend both, so this seat is not one you can take while that holds. No waitlist listed.

Meets

W 4:00pm-4:50pm

This discussion only. You also attend Lec 1.

Final

Exam time unavailable

No exam time is listed in the available section details. Check the registrar or current syllabus; this does not mean there is no final.

Grades

3.50

Predicted GPA

Historical records across all instructors; 3,402 letter grades

dibs has seen this section open 11 times since 17 August. The last time was 11 September. 6 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

Enrollment is limited to Political Science pre-majors and majors on the priority enrollment pass. Enrollment in upper-division courses is limited to Political Science majors on the first enrollment pass. Political Science pre-majors and majors may enroll on the second pass. Any student may enroll beginning June 31, 2026. 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 eases on a later pass rather than coming off: the note names who may enroll then, and it is not everyone. The registrar writes it as “Political Science pre-majors and majors may enroll on the second pass.” dibs still counts this class as one you can take, because it cannot tell whether you are in that group.

When it meets

This discussion and its linked lecture.

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11am

12pm

1pm

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4pm

Lec 1

11am-12:15pm

Lec 1

11am-12:15pm

Dis 1A

4pm-4:50pm

Scroll sideways for the whole week. All meeting times are listed below.

Dis 1A
W 4:00pm-4:50pm
Lec 1 (required lecture)
MW 11:00am-12:15pm

Public Affairs Building 1264

Grades

3.50

Predicted GPA

Historical records across all instructors; 3,402 letter grades

Of the 8 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 THOMPSON, DANIEL at 3.54 over 955 grades.

A range: 65%
P/NP: 3%
D/F/W: 1.9%

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.

No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 140 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.

Reviews for POL SCI 40 Search the reviews for L. Hinton

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

Peak 418 · most recent 25F at 418

Seats over time

Nothing read since 16 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 5.

11 times reopened

20 of 20 · no seats left

17 Aug 16:4216 Sep 15:3216 Oct 14:22 · 3 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 604 hours with hourly history, 28%. No reading was recorded in 436 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 21 Sep, which is the other 835 of 1439 plotted.

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 3 hours ago. It is where the line stops, not where the count is now.

Show the readings (28)

Recorded	Enrolled	Capacity	Status	Waitlist	Hours read
16 Oct 14:22	20	20	closed	-	168 of 829, 225 no hourly record
12 Sep 02:32	20	20	closed	-	no hourly record
11 Sep 23:52	19	20	open	-	no hourly record
11 Sep 22:02	20	20	closed	-	no hourly record
10 Sep 13:40	19	20	open	-	no hourly record
10 Sep 01:40	19	19	closed	-	no hourly record
9 Sep 01:40	18	19	open	-	no hourly record
9 Sep 00:40	18	18	closed	-	no hourly record
8 Sep 22:40	18	19	open	-	no hourly record
5 Sep 02:40	18	18	closed	-	no hourly record
3 Sep 23:40	16	18	open	-	no hourly record
3 Sep 21:40	16	17	open	-	no hourly record
3 Sep 11:27	16	18	open	-	no hourly record
27 Aug 19:40	16	17	open	-	no hourly record
24 Aug 10:55	17	17	closed	-	no hourly record
21 Aug 01:55	16	16	closed	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 22:55	15	16	open	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 21:55	16	16	closed	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 20:55	15	16	open	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 19:55	16	16	closed	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 18:55	15	16	open	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 17:55	16	16	closed	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 23:55	15	16	open	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 21:55	15	15	closed	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 14:55	15	16	open	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 13:55	15	15	closed	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 11:55	15	16	open	-	no hourly record
17 Aug 16:42	15	15	closed	-	-

How readings and alerts work

Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.

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.

Class chat

Nobody on dibs watches this class or has it on a plan yet. Nobody has posted yet.

Dis 1A shares one room with Lec 1 and every other discussion under it, because that is what a student means by "my class".

Reading a room needs no account. Posting does, and it is free.

Seats, time, final and grades

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An account

Your year

When you can enroll

A watch slot

Before you can enroll

From the registrar limited early, then open

When it meets

Grades i An estimate based on historical registrar grades, not a student rating. Instructor estimates are pulled toward the course and department average in proportion to how little data there is, so a twelve-person seminar cannot top the list on noise. The sample size is printed beside it.

What students say

Will it still be here i The worse of two readings: how full this section is right now, and how quickly the course has historically filled. A tier rather than a percentage, because reserved seats make any number optimistic: an open seat may be held for a major or an intake you are not in.

Seats over time

Class chat

Grades

Will it still be here