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SOCIOL 1

Introductory Sociology

5 units Social Analysis

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

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 27 discussions. 2 lectures and 22 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours 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. 4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.19 to 3.68.

  • 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). 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

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 Open, 12 seats left
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

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for SOCIOL 1

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. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

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.

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.

Lec 1 · Villarreal, A. · 261 of 273 enrolled

Filled by 27 over 17 days

261 of 273
17 Aug 12:323 Sep 12:47
read 168hnot reached 16hno record 225hSeats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:47, 234 to 261. Across the 409 hours from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:47, dibs holds a read record for 168 of them. Where the line is flat across an hour dibs did read, the count held: that is checked and unchanged, rather than nobody having looked. For 16 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 26 August at 21:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 225 hours of this window. A hedged line never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Across the 409 hours from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:47, dibs holds a read record for 168 of them. Where the line is flat across an hour dibs did read, the count held: that is checked and unchanged, rather than nobody having looked. For 16 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 26 August at 21:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 225 hours of this window. A hedged line never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 2 · Deckard, F.M. · 262 of 274 enrolled

Filled by 26 over 17 days

262 of 274
17 Aug 12:323 Sep 12:47
read 168hnot reached 16hno record 225hSeats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:47, 236 to 262. Across the 409 hours from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:47, dibs holds a read record for 168 of them. Where the line is flat across an hour dibs did read, the count held: that is checked and unchanged, rather than nobody having looked. For 16 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 26 August at 21:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 225 hours of this window. A hedged line never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Across the 409 hours from 17 Aug 12:32 to 3 Sep 12:47, dibs holds a read record for 168 of them. Where the line is flat across an hour dibs did read, the count held: that is checked and unchanged, rather than nobody having looked. For 16 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 26 August at 21:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 225 hours of this window. A hedged line never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.