POL SCI 40 · Dis 1L
Introduction to American Politics
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
3,402 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 8 times since 17 August. The last time was 29 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.
When it meets
Meets: W 6:00pm-6:50pm
Lecture: MW 11:00am-12:15pm
Public Affairs Building 1329
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%
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.
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 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 4.
8 times reopenedA 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 (20)
| Recorded | Enrolled | Capacity | Status | Waitlist | Hours read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 15:33 | 20 | 20 | closed | - | 12 of 38 |
| 30 Sep 02:02 | 20 | 20 | closed | - | 2 of 5 |
| 29 Sep 22:32 | 18 | 20 | open | - | 107 of 348 |
| 15 Sep 11:32 | 20 | 20 | closed | - | 4 of 11 |
| 15 Sep 01:12 | 17 | 20 | open | - | 40 of 109 |
| 10 Sep 13:40 | 18 | 20 | open | - | 8 of 37, 21 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 | 17 | 18 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 3 Sep 21:40 | 17 | 17 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 3 Sep 11:27 | 17 | 18 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 26 Aug 01:40 | 17 | 17 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 22:40 | 16 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 21:55 | 17 | 17 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 20:55 | 16 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 20:40 | 17 | 17 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 24 Aug 10:55 | 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.
Class chat
Nobody on dibs watches this class or has it on a plan yet. Nobody has posted yet.
Dis 1L 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.