PUBPOL-712
PUB POL PRESENTATION PRACTICUM
Not in 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. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
DepartmentPPS
Terms offeredSpring
Typical enrollment32–32
Semesters of data1
1.7
Hrs / week
17
Responses
32
Enrollment
53%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.4
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.4
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.6
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
2.1
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysislow
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 56 comments across 1 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. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
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
• Most of the signal comes from a limited sample, so be careful about over-generalizing.
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
I obtained practical insights about formulating presentations and drafting sharp and concise introductions and narratives.
Spring 2024 · Storelli, Dean
Excellent
Spring 2024 · Storelli, Dean
Fundamentals of building a presentation, how to write a presentation structure, an understanding the "American audience"
Spring 2024 · Storelli, Dean
It’s really helpful to prepare a good presentation on my MP.
Spring 2024 · Storelli, Dean
Making presentation. Writing introduction, middle and ending with call to action. Providing evidences to support the claim. Overall, the way how we used yo think of presentation is changed.
Spring 2024 · Storelli, Dean
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | Storelli, Dean | 4.4 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 32 |
Instructor
Also teaches
PUBPOL-705 MASTER'S PROJECT I D PPUBPOL-711 PUB POL WRITING PRACTICUM4.5PUBPOL-713 PROFESSIONAL EDITING PRACTICUM4.6