PHILOS 5
Philosophy in Literature
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 65 minutes ago.
Grades
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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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 5 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 5 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 34 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Philosophical inquiry into such themes as freedom, responsibility, guilt, love, self-knowledge and self-deception, death, and meaning of life through examination of great literary works in Western tradition. 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 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45amWaitlistno grade history
7 of 20 places taken. 120 of 120 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 7 of 20.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
M 9:00am-9:50am · Dodd Hall 178
Waitlist1 of 5 places taken.
30 of 30 enrolled
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Dis 1B
M 10:00am-10:50am · Dodd Hall 178
Waitlist2 of 5 places taken.
30 of 30 enrolled
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Dis 1C
W 9:00am-9:50am · Dodd Hall 178
Waitlist3 of 5 places taken.
30 of 30 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 10:00am-10:50am · Dodd Hall 178
Waitlist1 of 5 places taken.
30 of 30 enrolled
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From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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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 · Yao, V. · 120 of 120 enrolled
Filled by 37 over about 2 months
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.
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