SOC GEN 187A
Group Research
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 4 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
4.00
Average grade awarded in SOC GEN 187A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
100%
of the 92 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 92 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.99 to 4.00.
Historical grades for KELTY, CHRISTOPHER M, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VENKAT, BHARAT J reviews ↗ | 4.00 | 4.00 | 48 | 3 | 100% | - | Closed by the department |
| SHAPIRO, NICHOLAS E reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 3.99 | 23 | 1 | 100% | - | Closed by the department |
| LANDECKER, HANNAH LOUISE reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 4.00 | 21 | 1 | 100% | - | Closed by the department |
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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, one hour; laboratory, one hour; independent study, four hours. Enrollment by application. Limited to 20 students. Introduction to multidisciplinary laboratory work, putting departmental methods into practice. Includes series of readings and resources, specific working group tasks and semiweekly reflective memos on challenges and growth, and presentations on student research and journeys navigating the laboratory research process. Students learn how to collaborate on work products that have real world consequences; move from research questions into designing research to address those questions from existing data sources or novel archival, observational, modeling, or experimental research methods; perform technical tasks with accuracy and precision; reflect on their own learning curve for their specific task of formalized knowledge production; and foster group facilitation skills needed to advance effective leadership. May be repeated three times for credit with consent of instructor. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 4 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 F 1:00pm-1:50pmClosed by the department3.99predicted, this instructor · 21 gradesno enrollment count published no history
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 2. Check the restriction before enrolling.
Sem 2 F 1:00pm-1:50pmClosed by the department3.99predicted, this instructor · 23 grades4 enrolled no history
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Sem 3 W 12:00pm-12:50pmClosed by the department3.98predicted, all instructors · 92 gradesno enrollment count published no history
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Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 4. Check the restriction before enrolling.
Sem 4 F 2:00pm-2:50pmClosed by the department4.00predicted, this instructor · 48 grades12 enrolled no history
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 13 and 21 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 19 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 SOC GEN 187A 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. This course runs 4 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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.
Sem 1 · Landecker, H.L. · -
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 15 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Sem 2 · Shapiro, N.E. · 4 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 15 days before that, filled by 4.
0 to 4 enrolled across 3 readings, +4.
Sem 3 · Kelty, C.M. · -
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 15 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Sem 4 · Venkat, B.J. · 12 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 15 days before that, filled by 12.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
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.