SOC GEN 105B
Problems of Identity at Biology/Society Interface
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 72 minutes ago.
Grades
3.92
Average grade awarded in SOC GEN 105B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 989 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 989 grades over 11 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.71 to 4.00.
Historical grades for ALLARD, PATRICK, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 406 · 67.4%
- A 155 · 25.7%
- A- 28 · 4.7%
- B+ 7 · 1.2%
- B 2 · 0.3%
- C+ 1 · 0.2%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- F 1 · 0.2%
Percentages are of the 602 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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLARD, PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 602 | 5 | 98% | very light | Closed |
| KEEL, TERENCE D reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.72 | 157 | 2 | 78% | light | not teaching it |
| ZELENY, CHIEN-LING L reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 4.00 | 144 | 2 | 99% | - | not teaching it |
| LYNCH, JESSICA W reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.92 | 61 | 1 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| VAUGHN, RACHEL ANN reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.99 | 25 | 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.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: course 101 or Anthropology 1, or Life Sciences 4 and 23L, or 7C (each may be taken concurrently). Course 105A is not requisite to 105B. Exploration of problems of human identity that are inherently biological and social. Topics vary and may include race, obesity and nutrition, autism, deafness or disability, gender, intelligence, or sexuality. Topics contain set of intertwined problems so complex, so difficult to define, and so wrapped up in conceptions of what it is to be human, that it has spawned research from variety of perspectives in biological and human sciences. Students critically engage various intellectual perspectives—some competing, some complementary—that intersect on one particular topic. Examination of how researchers from social/historical and biological sciences construct topic as intellectual problem, methods they bring to bear on it, and findings they have produced. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 11:00am-12:15pmClosed3.96predicted, this instructor · 602 grades
120 of 120 · 1 over enrolled high risk
6 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 6 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 1A
F 10:00am-10:50am · Young Hall 1044
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 11:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences 6201
Closed20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 7608
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · La Kretz Hall 101
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · La Kretz Hall 100
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
F 3:00pm-3:50pm · La Kretz Hall 100
Closed20 of 20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 50 and 123 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 120 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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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 · Allard, P. · 120 of 120 · 1 over enrolled
Filled by 14 over about 1 month
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.
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