SOCIOL 1
Introductory Sociology
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1,082 · 16.6%
- A 2,339 · 35.8%
- A- 992 · 15.2%
- B+ 604 · 9.2%
- B 530 · 8.1%
- B- 296 · 4.5%
- C+ 217 · 3.3%
- C 173 · 2.6%
- C- 95 · 1.5%
- D+ 42 · 0.6%
- D 41 · 0.6%
- D- 21 · 0.3%
- F 99 · 1.5%
- P 159 of 6,738
- NP 19 of 6,738
- I 13 of 6,738
- DR 16 of 6,738
Percentages are of the 6,531 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VILLARREAL, ANDRES reviews ↗ | 3.34 | 3.34 | 1,801 | 7 | 54% | very light | not teaching it |
| 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.
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Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 310 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
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 Summer Session C 2026
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