CLUSTER 2A
Building Climates
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 Winter 2027, 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 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.74 to 3.86.
- 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). 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSMAN, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 359 | 2 | 86% | average | not teaching it |
| 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 |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 2A, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
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.