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SOCIOL 1

Introductory Sociology

5 units Social Analysis

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 27 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 7 minutes ago.

Grades

3.50

Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

68%

of the 6,531 letter grades

D, F or W

3.3%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

3%

89% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 6,531 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.19 to 3.68.

Historical grades for DECKARD, FAITH MONAE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
VILLARREAL, ANDRES reviews ↗ 3.34 3.34 1,801 7 54% very light Waitlist, 25 of 60 places taken
COLLETT, JESSICA LYN reviews ↗ 3.49 3.49 1,512 6 67% average not teaching it
ROSSI, GIOVANNI reviews ↗ 3.64 3.65 718 2 82% - not teaching it
ANDERSON, TERRI L reviews ↗ 3.47 3.47 695 5 69% heavy not teaching it
SMALL-RODRIGUEZ, DISLOREI MARIE reviews ↗ 3.85 3.86 595 2 90% light not teaching it
SIGMON, JONATHAN P reviews ↗ 3.52 3.52 528 3 69% light not teaching it
SPEER, ISAAC DAVID FLIGSTEIN reviews ↗ 3.69 3.70 290 2 79% light not teaching it
BRUBAKER, WILLIAM ROGERS reviews ↗ 3.01 2.96 177 3 34% average not teaching it
BABON, KIM reviews ↗ 3.67 3.69 118 1 81% - not teaching it
LACAYO, CELIA O reviews ↗ 3.67 3.71 64 1 84% - not teaching it
JEPSON, MARK C reviews ↗ 3.22 3.07 33 1 27% average 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.

Reviews for SOCIOL 1

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 read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 310 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.

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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, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of characteristics of social life, processes of social interaction, and tools of sociological investigation. P/NP or 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 29 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 93 and 299 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 198 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 SOCIOL 1 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 2 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.

Lec 1 · Villarreal, A. · 300 of 300 enrolled

Filled by 66 over about 2 months

300 of 300 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:221 Oct 16:13
dibs read 168 of the 529 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 361. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 556 of 1085 plotted.300 of 300 enrolled at the newest reading, 7 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 16:13, 234 to 300. dibs read 168 of the 529 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 361 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 16:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 556 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 2 · Deckard, F.M. · 300 of 300 enrolled

Filled by 64 over about 2 months

300 of 300 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:221 Oct 16:13
dibs read 168 of the 529 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 361. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 556 of 1085 plotted.300 of 300 enrolled at the newest reading, 7 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 16:13, 236 to 300. dibs read 168 of the 529 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 361 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 16:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 556 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.