CLUSTER 2A
Building Climates
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 11 discussions. 1 lecture and 10 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 49 minutes ago.
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
Dibs only reads Fall 2026, so the later parts show no sections here: that is this term, not the sequence ending. What you keep if you take only part of a cluster is a question for the Cluster Program, not something these numbers answer.
Grades
3.79
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 2A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
86%
of the 359 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 359 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.74 to 3.86.
Historical grades for OSMAN, MICHAEL, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 30 · 8.4%
- A 191 · 53.2%
- A- 87 · 24.2%
- B+ 22 · 6.1%
- B 25 · 7.0%
- B- 1 · 0.3%
- C 2 · 0.6%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- P 3 of 362
Percentages are of the 359 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| OSMAN, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 359 | 2 | 86% | average | Open, 94 seats left |
| CRAIG, SALMAAN reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 359 | 2 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| VASHAKMADZE, SHOTA reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.74 | 207 | 1 | 80% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- No exams, 1 mention in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 2 mentions in past reviews
Based on 6 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, two hours. Course 2A is requisite to 2B, which is requisite to 2CW. Introduction to historical origins and contemporary social context of climate change through the built environment. Definition of concepts that pertain to the history and science of buildings, cities, and regions; and their adaptation through a just transition. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 12 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open94 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 173 of 267 enrolled
Instructor
Osman, M., Craig, S., and Carver, E.
3.79Predicted GPA
Historical records for OSMAN, MICHAEL; 359 letter gradesSeat risk
low riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 11 discussions below.
11 discussions, 10 open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 11 discussions
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Open
1 seat left.
22 of 23 enrolled
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Open
8 seats left.
15 of 23 enrolled
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Open
2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Open
8 seats left.
15 of 23 enrolled
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Open
2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Open
23 seats left.
2 of 25 enrolled
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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Open
11 seats left.
14 of 25 enrolled
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Open
2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Open
18 seats left.
7 of 25 enrolled
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Open
19 seats left.
4 of 23 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 152 and 210 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 210 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking CLUSTER 2A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Osman, M., Craig, S., and Carver, E. · 173 of 267 enrolled
Filled by 72 over 2 months
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.