SOC GEN 187A
Group Research
Seminar.
Winter 2027: 5 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 7 days 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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 2.2%
- A 89 · 96.7%
- A- 1 · 1.1%
Percentages are of the 92 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VENKAT, BHARAT J reviews ↗ | 4.00 | 4.00 | 48 | 3 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| SHAPIRO, NICHOLAS E reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 3.99 | 23 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| LANDECKER, HANNAH LOUISE reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 4.00 | 21 | 1 | 100% | - | 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
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 Winter 2027
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 Time TBANot published yet
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3.98predicted, all instructors · 92 gradesno enrollment count published no history
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Sem 2 Time TBANot published yet
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3.98predicted, all instructors · 92 gradesno enrollment count published no history
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Sem 3 Time TBANot published yet
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3.98predicted, all instructors · 92 gradesno enrollment count published no history
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Sem 4 Time TBANot published yet
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3.98predicted, all instructors · 92 gradesno enrollment count published no history
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Sem 5 Time TBANot published yet
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3.98predicted, all instructors · 92 gradesno enrollment count published no history
not checked yet
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.
Seats over time in Winter 2027
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
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.
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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