POL SCI 60
Ethics and Governance
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). To study question of can't we all just get along, students play games of cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and competition and examine whether and how diversity, disagreement, and democracy influence game play, to understand under what conditions diversity feeds productively or counterproductively into group effort. Development of self- and other-awareness of emergent properties of disagreement to appreciate how different kinds of social organization promote or undercut social cognition and collective action. Such understanding needs to develop bottom-up through experiential and interactive learning, active and analytical learning, systems thinking, and real-world application. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.75
- n = 287 · 4 terms · ± 0.032
- A range
- 83%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 5%
- 88% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 1.0%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 5822S
- 4923S
- 7124W
- 7725W
Grade distribution
- A+ 148 · 48.7%
- A 68 · 22.4%
- A- 22 · 7.2%
- B+ 19 · 6.3%
- B 8 · 2.6%
- B- 11 · 3.6%
- C+ 4 · 1.3%
- C 4 · 1.3%
- F 3 · 1.0%
- P 14 · 4.6%
- NP 2 · 0.7%
- I 1 · 0.3%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOHMANN, SUSANNE | 3.76 | 3.76 | 287 | 4 | 83% |
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
By term
- 22S 3.73 n=54
- 23S 3.79 n=92
- 24W 3.80 n=67
- 25W 3.71 n=74