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POL SCI 40 · Dis 1I

Introduction to American Politics

Fall 2026Wilson, D.5 units

Seats, time, final and grades

Seats

Closed.

20 of 20 enrolled.

Its lecture reads closed (240 of 240 enrolled): you attend both, so this seat is not one you can take while that holds. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

Meets

W 6:00pm-6:50pm

This discussion only. You also attend Lec 1.

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

3.50
predicted, all instructors · 3,402 grades

3,402 letter grades, everyone who has taught POL SCI 40.

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 13 times since 17 August. The last time was 30 September. 8 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.

When it meets

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Meets: W 6:00pm-6:50pm

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

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Grades

3.50
predicted, all instructors · 3,402 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.

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.

Reviews for POL SCI 40 Search the reviews for D. Wilson

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 1 month before that, filled by 4.

13 times reopened
20 of 20 · no seats left
17 Aug 16:429 Sep 04:081 Oct 15:33 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 522 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 354. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 558 of 1080 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 16:42 to 1 Oct 15:33, 16 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 522 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 354 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 558 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 (31)
Recorded Enrolled Capacity Status Waitlist Hours read
1 Oct 15:33 20 20 closed - 6 of 17
30 Sep 23:12 20 20 closed - 2 of 5
30 Sep 19:42 19 20 open - 113 of 369
15 Sep 11:32 20 20 closed - 4 of 11
15 Sep 01:12 18 20 open - 4 of 11
14 Sep 15:02 19 20 open - 2 of 5
14 Sep 11:32 18 20 open - 43 of 131, 21 no hourly record
9 Sep 01:40 19 20 open - no hourly record
9 Sep 00:40 19 19 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 22:40 19 20 open - no hourly record
5 Sep 02:40 19 19 closed - no hourly record
3 Sep 23:40 18 19 open - no hourly record
3 Sep 21:40 18 18 closed - no hourly record
3 Sep 11:27 18 19 open - no hourly record
26 Aug 01:40 18 18 closed - no hourly record
25 Aug 22:40 17 18 open - no hourly record
25 Aug 21:55 18 18 closed - no hourly record
25 Aug 20:55 17 18 open - no hourly record
25 Aug 20:40 18 18 closed - no hourly record
24 Aug 10:55 17 18 open - no hourly record
21 Aug 01:55 17 17 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 23:55 16 17 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 21:55 17 17 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 20:55 16 17 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 17:55 17 17 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 23:55 16 17 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 21:55 16 16 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 14:55 16 17 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 13:55 16 16 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 11:55 16 17 open - no hourly record
17 Aug 16:42 16 16 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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