SOC GEN 5
Integrative Approaches to Human Biology and Society
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in SOC GEN 5. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 1,107 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 1,107 grades over 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 3.38 to 3.94.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 132 · 11.9%
- A 535 · 48.3%
- A- 150 · 13.6%
- B+ 96 · 8.7%
- B 97 · 8.8%
- B- 46 · 4.2%
- C+ 18 · 1.6%
- C 15 · 1.4%
- C- 8 · 0.7%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 8 · 0.7%
- I 6 of 1,114
- DR 1 of 1,114
Percentages are of the 1,107 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I) and withdrawals (DR).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCEVOY, MEGAN MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.76 | 461 | 2 | 81% | light | not teaching it |
| LANDECKER, HANNAH LOUISE reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.44 | 393 | 2 | 57% | average | not teaching it |
| SCROGGINS, MICHAEL JASON reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.88 | 203 | 3 | 92% | very light | not teaching it |
| VENKAT, BHARAT J reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.53 | 160 | 1 | 68% | very light | not teaching it |
| ALLARD, PATRICK reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.38 | 50 | 1 | 60% | average | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
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.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 64 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for SOC GEN 5 in any term it holds, 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 Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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, one hour. Introduction to concept of problem-based approaches to study of biology and society and areas of concentration, such as bioethics and public science policy, evolutionary biology, culture, and behavior, historical and social studies of life sciences, medical genetics and public health, and population genetics and history, and central thematic issues shared across concentrations, such as commercialization of life and public understanding of science. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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