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PHILOS 198A

Honors Research in Philosophy

2 units

Sections & times

Tutorial.

Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.

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Tutorial, two hours. Limited to junior/senior philosophy honors program students. To be taken in conjunction with one upper-division philosophy lecture course, either concurrently or in subsequent term, under direct supervision of lecture course instructor. Advanced work related to lecture course, further reading, and preparation of 12- to 15-page paper representing original research. Courses 198A and 198B must be taken in conjunction with two different lecture courses, and both must be taken to satisfy departmental honors requirement. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

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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.

Tut 1 · Cumming, S.J. · 1 enrolled

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

Both readings say 1 seat.

2 Oct 03:372 Oct 05:202 Oct 07:02 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 2 of the 5 hours plotted, and did not look in 3.Seats from 2 Oct 03:37 to 2 Oct 07:02, 1 to 1. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 3 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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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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