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SOCIOL 101

Development of Sociological Theory

5 units

Sections & times

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

Fall 2026: 3 lectures and 15 discussions. 1 lecture and 1 discussion are open. The oldest of these readings was 5 hours ago.

Grades

3.11

Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 101. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

37%

of the 3,011 letter grades

D, F or W

4.4%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

2%

72% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 3,011 grades over 16 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 16 terms ran 2.77 to 3.38.

Historical grades for AYALA, CÉSAR J, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 20 · 3.4%
  • A 97 · 16.3%
  • A- 95 · 16.0%
  • B+ 93 · 15.7%
  • B 88 · 14.8%
  • B- 73 · 12.3%
  • C+ 41 · 6.9%
  • C 36 · 6.1%
  • C- 18 · 3.0%
  • D+ 15 · 2.5%
  • D 11 · 1.9%
  • D- 3 · 0.5%
  • F 4 · 0.7%
  • P 7 of 608
  • NP 1 of 608
  • I 2 of 608
  • DR 4 of 608

Percentages are of the 594 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

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
SIGMON, JONATHAN P reviews ↗ 3.18 3.18 847 8 43% light not teaching it
YERITSIAN, GARY reviews ↗ 3.16 3.16 673 6 37% light Waitlist, 13 of 30 places taken
AYALA, CÉSAR J reviews ↗ 3.06 3.06 594 6 36% heavy Open, 16 seats left
JEPSON, MARK C reviews ↗ 2.94 2.94 546 3 25% average Waitlist, 3 of 30 places taken
COLLETT, JESSICA LYN reviews ↗ 3.41 3.45 140 1 62% - not teaching it
SPEER, ISAAC DAVID FLIGSTEIN reviews ↗ 3.00 2.98 119 1 31% light not teaching it
ROSSI, GIOVANNI reviews ↗ 3.19 3.20 92 2 47% - 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 101

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.

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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. Comparative survey of basic concepts and theories in sociology from 1850 to 1920. 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 18 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 80 and 201 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 119 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 101 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 3 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 · Yeritsian, G. · 120 of 120 enrolled

Filled by 24 over about 1 month

120 of 120 · no seats left in its discussions
18 Aug 18:4010 Sep 00:012 Oct 05:22
dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 368. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 532 of 1068 plotted.120 of 120 enrolled at the newest reading, 8 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 2 Oct 05:22, 96 to 120. dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 368 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 532 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 2 · Jepson, M.C. · 120 of 120 enrolled

Filled by 24 over about 1 month

120 of 120 · no seats left in its discussions
18 Aug 18:4010 Sep 00:012 Oct 05:22
dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 368. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 532 of 1068 plotted.120 of 120 enrolled at the newest reading, 8 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 2 Oct 05:22, 96 to 120. dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 368 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 532 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 3 · Ayala, C.J. · 44 of 60 enrolled

Filled by 44 over 9 days

44 of 60 · 16 left in its discussions
23 Sep 14:4227 Sep 22:022 Oct 05:22
dibs read 62 of the 208 hours plotted, 30%, and did not look in 146.44 of 60 enrolled at the newest reading, 8 minutes ago, with 16 left in its discussions. Seats from 23 Sep 14:42 to 2 Oct 05:22, 0 to 44. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 146 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

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.