UCLA SOCIOL 1: Introductory Sociology

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

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 27 discussions. 1 discussion is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.

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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

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, 0 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

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.

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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

Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.

Seat counts as of 18 Oct 20:33: the oldest of these 29 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Section
Lec 1
TR 12:30pm-1:45pm

Seats
Waitlist
0 of 60 places taken.

Lecture: 300 of 300 enrolled

Instructor

Villarreal, A.

3.34
Predicted GPA
Historical records for VILLARREAL, ANDRES; 1,801 letter grades

Seat risk
high risk
12 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1C, M 10:00am-10:50am. Lecture reads closed, so its 1 open discussion cannot be reached from here. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 0 of 60.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 12 discussions
- Dis 1A
  M 8:00am-8:50am · Bunche Hall 3156
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1B
  M 9:00am-9:50am · Bunche Hall 3156
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1C
  M 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3156
  
  Open
  1 seat left.
  
  24 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1D
  T 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3178
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1E
  T 4:00pm-4:50pm · Haines Hall A24
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1F
  T 5:00pm-5:50pm · Dodd Hall 178
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1G
  W 11:00am-11:50am · Rolfe Hall 3129
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1H
  W 12:00pm-12:50pm · Haines Hall A74
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1I
  W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1329
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1J
  R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Kaufman Hall 153
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1K
  R 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1270
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
- Dis 1L
  R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1264
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  25 of 25 enrolled
Section
Lec 2
TR 3:30pm-4:45pm

Seats
Waitlist
0 of 75 places taken.

Lecture: 300 of 300 · 3 over enrolled

Instructor

Deckard, F.M.

3.50
Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 6,531 letter grades

Seat risk
high risk
15 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 0 of 75.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 15 discussions
- Dis 2A
  M 10:00am-10:50am · Dodd Hall 162
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2B
  M 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall A28
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2C
  M 1:00pm-1:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A48
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 2D
  T 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall 122
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2E
  T 11:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences 7608
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 2F
  T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Haines Hall 122
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2G
  W 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall 110
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2H
  W 12:00pm-12:50pm · Haines Hall 110
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2I
  W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A32
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 2J
  R 9:00am-9:50am · Haines Hall A44
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2K
  R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Haines Hall 110
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2L
  R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Bunche Hall 2156
  
  Waitlist
  0 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2M
  F 10:00am-10:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A48
  
  Closed
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2N
  F 11:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2333
  
  Closed
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2O
  F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2333
  
  Closed
  20 of 20 enrolled

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.

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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

Nothing read since 18 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 66.

300 of 300 · no seats left in its discussions

17 Aug 12:3217 Sep 16:3218 Oct 20:33 · 2 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 607 hours with hourly history, 28%. No reading was recorded in 439 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 23 Sep, which is the other 890 of 1497 plotted.

Lec 2 · Deckard, F.M. · 300 of 300 · 3 over enrolled

Nothing read since 18 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 64.

300 of 300 · no seats left in its discussions

17 Aug 12:3217 Sep 16:3218 Oct 20:33 · 2 hours ago

Checked 168 of the 607 hours with hourly history, 28%. No reading was recorded in 439 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 23 Sep, which is the other 890 of 1497 plotted.

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