SOCIOL 171
Occupations and Professions
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 7 hours ago.
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 171. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 765 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 765 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.31 to 3.91.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 32 · 4.2%
- A 397 · 51.9%
- A- 155 · 20.3%
- B+ 65 · 8.5%
- B 56 · 7.3%
- B- 28 · 3.7%
- C+ 10 · 1.3%
- C 12 · 1.6%
- C- 3 · 0.4%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 5 · 0.7%
- P 2 of 771
- I 1 of 771
- DR 3 of 771
Percentages are of the 765 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDALON, RICHARD reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.75 | 476 | 4 | 84% | light | not teaching it |
| SIGMON, JONATHAN P reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.51 | 289 | 2 | 63% | very light | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for SOCIOL 171 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
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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. Description and analysis of representative occupations and professions, with emphasis on contemporary U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 2:00pm-3:15pmCancelled
No instructors
3.66predicted, all instructors · 765 gradesno enrollment count published -
not checked yetEvery discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 1A
T 8:00am-8:50am · Haines Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1B
T 9:00am-9:50am · Haines Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1C
T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1D
R 9:00am-9:50am · Dodd Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1E
R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1F
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 145 and 163 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 147 in Winter 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Fall 2026
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
How readings and alerts work
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.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.
From the people who took it
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