UCLA SOC GEN M71A: Biotechnology and Society

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

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 11 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.

Also listed as CLUSTER M71A (open, 262 of 263 enrolled, standing limit): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.

Grades

No grade history for this course: the data runs Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Sections for Fall 2026 are below. The same class is graded under CLUSTER M71A, where the history is kept.

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Reviews for SOC GEN M71A

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.

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Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer

Read from 10 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.

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From the registrar's catalog

(Same as Clusters M71A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M71A is enforced requisite to M71B, which is enforced requisite to M71CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration of methods, applications, and implications of biotechnology and of ethical, social, and political implications as well as biological underpinnings. 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 02 Oct 01:24: the oldest of these 12 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Lec 1 MW 12:30pm-1:45pm
Closed by the department

Panofsky, A.L., Rensel, M.A., and Scroggins, M.J.

no grade history

no enrollment count published no history

11 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 11 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (11)
- Dis 1A
  M 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons 210
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1B
  M 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 210
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1C
  T 10:00am-11:50am · Covel Commons 225
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1D
  T 12:00pm-1:50pm · Covel Commons 225
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1E
  R 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2317
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1F
  R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2317
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1G
  T 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1H
  T 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1I
  R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2317
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1J
  W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons 225
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published
- Dis 1K
  W 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 225
  
  Closed by the department
  no enrollment count published

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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

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 · Panofsky, A.L., Rensel, M.A., and Scroggins, M.J. · -

Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

17 Aug 12:329 Sep 06:582 Oct 01:24 · 3 hours ago

dibs read 168 of the 568 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 400. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 526 of 1094 plotted.

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.

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