CLUSTER 73B
Mind over Matter: History, Science, and Philosophy of Brain
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
Dibs only reads Winter 2027, so the later parts show no sections here: that is this term, not the sequence ending. What you keep if you take only part of a cluster is a question for the Cluster Program, not something these numbers answer.
Grades
3.76
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 73B. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 724 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
5 of 5 students passed
The registrar's own records: 724 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.65 to 3.80.
- A+ 146 · 20.2%
- A 345 · 47.7%
- A- 103 · 14.2%
- B+ 45 · 6.2%
- B 47 · 6.5%
- B- 18 · 2.5%
- C+ 7 · 1.0%
- C 7 · 1.0%
- C- 4 · 0.6%
- F 2 · 0.3%
- P 5 of 733
- I 4 of 733
Percentages are of the 724 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I). 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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUTHERLAND KRISTAL, ROMY reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.78 | 432 | 2 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
| GIBBONS, SARAH LEE reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.78 | 432 | 2 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
| ANESI, JULIANN T reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.73 | 346 | 2 | 81% | - | not teaching it |
| SOLONE, CAITLIN JEAN reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.77 | 240 | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KNOWLTON, BARBARA reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 192 | 1 | 86% | average | not teaching it |
| CHANDLER, SCOTT H reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.80 | 138 | 1 | 83% | average | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 73B, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 73A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Drawing on several disciplines including disability studies, literary and film analysis, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology, development of multilayered account of how our increasingly sophisticated knowledge of brain relates to experiences of subjectivity, mental health, and disability. Explicitly addresses considerations regarding diversity by examining questions about variation in mental functioning and experience, with specific attention to the way ableism shapes our views about psychiatric and brain-based difference. P/NP or letter grading.