Skip to content
Dibs Fall 2026

ANTHRO 3

Culture and Society

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; fieldwork. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Introduction to study of culture and society in comparative perspective. Examples from societies around world to illustrate basic principles of formation, structure, and distribution of human institutions. Of special concern is contribution and knowledge that cultural diversity makes toward understanding problems of modern world. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.61
n = 2,100 · 9 terms · ± 0.012
A range
76%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
93% of those passed
D / F / W
3.1%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Closed
246 of 246
100% full
 fills TR 9:30am-10:45am Boum, A.
3.61n=2,100 · course average

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 29622W
  • 29522F
  • 30323W
  • 30323F
  • 27624F
  • 29625W
Enrolment by term: 22W 296, 22F 295, 23W 303, 23F 303, 24F 276, 25W 296
Peak 303 Most recent 296 in 25W 6 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 444 · 20.4%
  • A 832 · 38.2%
  • A- 313 · 14.4%
  • B+ 178 · 8.2%
  • B 130 · 6.0%
  • B- 66 · 3.0%
  • C+ 26 · 1.2%
  • C 30 · 1.4%
  • C- 15 · 0.7%
  • D+ 6 · 0.3%
  • D 10 · 0.5%
  • D- 10 · 0.5%
  • F 40 · 1.8%
  • P 66 · 3.0%
  • NP 5 · 0.2%
  • I 5 · 0.2%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
ACIKSOZ, SALIH CAN 3.78 3.78 580 2 86%
CATTELINO, JESSICA R 3.33 3.32 542 2 57%
LEMELSON, ROBERT BUSH 3.75 3.76 289 1 84%
YAN, YUNXIANG 3.80 3.81 289 1 89%
THROOP, CHRISTOPHER J 3.54 3.54 285 1 67%
BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW 3.49 3.48 115 2 76%

“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.

By term