PUBPOL-711
PUB POL WRITING PRACTICUM
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
DepartmentPPS
Terms offeredFall
Typical enrollment24–27
Semesters of data3
1.6
Hrs / week
46
Responses
77
Enrollment
60%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.5
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.5
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.8
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
2.3
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysishigh
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 105 comments across 3 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
More reachable A
Student comments make the grading bar sound relatively reachable. This reads more like a course where steady work is rewarded than one where students describe the A as unusually hard to land.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Regular lecture load
Lectures matter here, but the evidence points to a fairly standard lecture burden rather than a course dominated by long or exceptionally dense lectures.
Strengths
• Instructor ratings are strong even when the comments do not cluster around one obvious positive theme.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Watch out for
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
As a non-English speaking student, I have a better understanding of English sentences, paragraph organization, and expressions.
Fall 2023 · Storelli, Dean
Dean's writing tips are already quite helpful. I'm teaching basic writing to kids in my native languages, and I find Dean's methods and texts useful.
Fall 2023 · Storelli, Dean
Writing for Policy Analysis
Fall 2023 · Storelli, Dean
develop a writing style. Learn about American audiences. Understand the sentences and paragraphs structure.
Fall 2023 · Storelli, Dean
Writing simpler and clearer sentences, and how to do more consistent and concise paragraphs.
Fall 2023 · Storelli, Dean
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Storelli, Dean | — | — | — | 27 |
| Fall 2024 | Storelli, Dean | 4.4 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 24 |
| Fall 2023 | Storelli, Dean | 4.6 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 26 |
Instructor
Also teaches
PUBPOL-705 MASTER'S PROJECT I D PPUBPOL-712 PUB POL PRESENTATION PRACTICUM4.4PUBPOL-713 PROFESSIONAL EDITING PRACTICUM4.6