SOC GEN 105B
Problems of Identity at Biology/Society Interface
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
-
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 440 · 44.5%
- A 420 · 42.5%
- A- 76 · 7.7%
- B+ 32 · 3.2%
- B 12 · 1.2%
- B- 3 · 0.3%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- C- 2 · 0.2%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 1 · 0.1%
- P 1 of 990
Percentages are of the 989 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLARD, PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 602 | 5 | 98% | very light | not teaching it |
| 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.
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Workload and assignments
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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 Summer Session A 2026
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