SOC GEN 108
Human Biology, Genetics, and Society
Lecture and lab.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 3 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 72 minutes ago.
Grades
3.96
Average grade awarded in SOC GEN 108. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 318 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 318 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.88 to 4.00.
Historical grades for VAUGHN, RACHEL ANN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELTY, CHRISTOPHER M reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 3.97 | 88 | 3 | 100% | heavy | not teaching it |
| CARR, DANIELLE JUDITH ZOLA reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.93 | 83 | 3 | 95% | average | not teaching it |
| LYNCH, JESSICA W reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 59 | 2 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| RENSEL, MICHELLE A reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 3.99 | 59 | 2 | 98% | very light | not teaching it |
| GARRISON, NANIBAA ANGELA reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.96 | 29 | 1 | 97% | - | 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.
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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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In Falls
Ran in 2 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; laboratory, two hours. Limited to senior Human Biology and Society majors. Lectures, readings, discussions, and development of collaborative culminating project. Group-based research projects in mapping and staging contemporary controversy at intersections of human biology, genetics, and society. Reading of large amounts of material to make sense of both scientific concepts and social and political issues, with original research project and presentation required. 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 4 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 9:30am-10:45amOpen3.96predicted, all instructors · 318 grades
6 seats left. 25 of 30 enrolled medium risk
3 discussions, 2 open: Lab 1B, T 11:00am-11:50am, and Lab 1C, T 12:00pm-12:50pm.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 3 discussions below.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 25 and 32 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 29 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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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 · Vaughn, R.A. · 25 of 30 enrolled
Freed 5 seats over about 1 month
How readings and alerts work
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