UCLA SOCIOL 20: Introduction to Sociological Research Methods

Sections & times

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

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 5 hours ago.

Grades

3.09

Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 20. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

41%

of the 2,871 letter grades

D, F or W

5.3%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 2,871 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 2.18 to 3.72.

Historical grades for SIGMON, JONATHAN P, 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
SWEENEY, MEGAN MC DONNELL reviews ↗	3.02	3.02	624	4	36%	light	not teaching it
ROSSI, GIOVANNI reviews ↗	2.74	2.73	558	5	27%	average	not teaching it
YU, WEI-HSIN reviews ↗	3.09	3.09	468	3	37%	average	not teaching it
LARKINS, SHERRY A reviews ↗	3.28	3.28	451	4	48%	light	not teaching it
BAHTINA, DARIA reviews ↗	2.97	2.97	353	3	26%	-	not teaching it
GADDIS, STEVEN MICHAEL, JR reviews ↗	3.66	3.72	150	1	81%	-	not teaching it
ANDALON, RICHARD reviews ↗	3.62	3.70	120	1	83%	very light	not teaching it
COLLETT, JESSICA LYN reviews ↗	3.52	3.60	91	2	79%	-	not teaching it
STIVERS, TANYA JEAN reviews ↗	2.86	2.79	56	1	38%	light	not teaching it

Why Predicted is not the Raw average

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Reviews for SOCIOL 20

Workload and assignments

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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, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to methods used in contemporary sociological research, with focus on issues of research design, data collection, and analysis of data. Fieldwork may be required. 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 01 Oct 16:13: the oldest of these 17 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Lec 1 TR 3:30pm-4:45pm
Cancelled

No instructors

3.09
predicted, all instructors · 2,871 grades

no enrollment count published -

not checked yet
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
- Dis 1A
  T 11:00am-11:50am · Royce Hall
  
  Cancelled
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1B
  T 12:00pm-12:50pm · Royce Hall
  
  Cancelled
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1C
  T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Haines Hall
  
  Cancelled
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1D
  R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building
  
  Cancelled
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1E
  R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall
  
  Cancelled
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1F
  R 5:00pm-5:50pm · Haines Hall
  
  Cancelled
  no enrollment count published
Lec 2 TR 3:30pm-4:45pm
Waitlist

Sigmon, J.P.

3.09
predicted, all instructors · 2,871 grades

22 of 45 places taken. 180 of 180 enrolled high risk

9 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 22 of 45.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)
- Dis 2A
  M 8:00am-8:50am · Haines Hall 110
  
  Waitlist
  2 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2B
  M 9:00am-9:50am · Royce Hall 166
  
  Waitlist
  3 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2C
  M 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall A28
  
  Waitlist
  2 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2D
  M 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall 122
  
  Waitlist
  2 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2E
  W 8:00am-8:50am · Haines Hall 122
  
  Waitlist
  2 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2F
  W 9:00am-9:50am · Kaufman Hall 153
  
  Waitlist
  2 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2G
  W 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3164
  
  Waitlist
  2 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2H
  W 11:00am-11:50am · Bunche Hall 2156
  
  Waitlist
  4 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled
- Dis 2I
  W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Haines Hall A20
  
  Waitlist
  4 of 5 places taken.
  
  20 of 20 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 104 and 171 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 148 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.

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

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Lec 2 · Sigmon, J.P. · 180 of 180 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 36.

180 of 180 · no seats left in its discussions

18 Aug 18:409 Sep 19:111 Oct 19:42 · 2 hours ago

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 529 of 1058 plotted.

How readings and alerts work

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