SOC GEN 180
Special Courses in Society and Genetics
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in SOC GEN 180. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 2,050 letter grades
D, F or W
0.4%
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: 2,050 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.63 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 600 · 29.3%
- A 1,353 · 66.0%
- A- 45 · 2.2%
- B+ 10 · 0.5%
- B 24 · 1.2%
- B- 2 · 0.1%
- C 6 · 0.3%
- C- 2 · 0.1%
- F 8 · 0.4%
- P 3 of 2,073
- I 20 of 2,073
Percentages are of the 2,050 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZELENY, CHIEN-LING L reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 3.97 | 686 | 12 | 99% | very light | not teaching it |
| SCROGGINS, MICHAEL JASON reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 3.97 | 579 | 9 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| SOSA, ENRIQUE reviews ↗ | 3.99 | 3.99 | 247 | 3 | 100% | very light | not teaching it |
| VAUGHN, RACHEL ANN reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.91 | 228 | 6 | 97% | light | not teaching it |
| SHAPIRO, NICHOLAS E reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 3.98 | 111 | 2 | 99% | - | not teaching it |
| CARR, DANIELLE JUDITH ZOLA reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.83 | 68 | 2 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| ALLARD, PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.74 | 54 | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KIESOW, STEPHANIE MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.78 | 49 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| VENKAT, BHARAT J reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 4.00 | 28 | 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.
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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. Departmentally sponsored experimental or temporary courses on selected topics, such as those taught by visiting faculty members. May be repeated for credit with topic change. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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