SOCIOL 1
Introductory Sociology
Lecture and discussion.
Winter 2026: 2 lectures and 21 discussions. 2 lectures and 6 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months 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 SPEER, ISAAC DAVID FLIGSTEIN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 6 · 2.1%
- A 174 · 60.0%
- A- 48 · 16.6%
- B+ 26 · 9.0%
- B 15 · 5.2%
- B- 8 · 2.8%
- C+ 7 · 2.4%
- C 3 · 1.0%
- C- 1 · 0.3%
- F 2 · 0.7%
- P 3 of 296
- I 2 of 296
- DR 1 of 296
Percentages are of the 290 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 | Winter 2026 |
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| VILLARREAL, ANDRES reviews ↗ | 3.34 | 3.34 | 1,801 | 7 | 54% | very light | Open, 4 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 | Open, 4 seats left |
| 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.
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.
In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 23 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open4 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 296 of 300 enrolled
Instructor
3.69Predicted GPA
Historical records for SPEER, ISAAC DAVID FLIGSTEIN; 290 letter gradesSeat risk
-15 discussions, 4 open: Dis 1B, M 12:00pm-12:50pm, Dis 1C, M 1:00pm-1:50pm, Dis 1D, T 10:00am-10:50am, and Dis 1H, W 4:00pm-4:50pm.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 15 discussions
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Waitlist
0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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Waitlist
0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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0 of 5 places taken.
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0 of 5 places taken.
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0 of 5 places taken.
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0 of 5 places taken.
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0 of 5 places taken.
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0 of 5 places taken.
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Seats
Open4 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 116 of 120 enrolled
Instructor
3.34Predicted GPA
Historical records for VILLARREAL, ANDRES; 1,801 letter gradesSeat risk
-6 discussions, 2 open: Dis 2B, M 2:00pm-2:50pm, and Dis 2C, M 3:00pm-3:50pm.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 6 discussions
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Waitlist
0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Open
2 seats left.
18 of 20 enrolled
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2 seats left.
18 of 20 enrolled
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0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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0 of 5 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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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 Winter 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 · Speer, I.D. · 296 of 300 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 296 of 300.
Lec 2 · Villarreal, A. · 116 of 120 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 116 of 120.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.