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SOC GEN M72A

Sex from Biology to Gendered Society

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 8 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.

Also listed as CLUSTER M72A (open, 192 of 194 enrolled, standing limit), COMM M72A (closed by the department), SOCIOL M72A (closed by the department): 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 M72A, where the history is kept.

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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.

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From the registrar's catalog

(Same as Communication M72A, Clusters M72A, and Sociology M72A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M72A is enforced requisite to M72B, which is enforced requisite to M72CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Examination of many ways in which sex and sexual identity shape and are shaped by biological and social forces, approached from complementary perspectives of anthropology, biology, medicine, and sociology. Specific topics include biological origins of sex differences, intersex, gender identity, gender inequality, homosexuality, sex differences, sex/gender and law, and politics of sex research. 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 9 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

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Student reviews

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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 · Haselton, M.G., Schlinger, B., Prall, S.P., and Frederick, D.A. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

17 Aug 12:329 Sep 00:521 Oct 13:12 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 570 hours its hourly record covers, 29%, and did not look in 402. dibs had no hourly record before 7 Sep, which is the other 512 of 1082 plotted.Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 13:12, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 570 hours its hourly record here covers, 29%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 402 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 7 September at 20:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 512 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.
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.