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CLUSTER 20A

Race and Indigeneity in U.S.

6 units Literary and Cultural Analysis Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice Historical Analysis Social Analysis

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 14 discussions. 1 lecture and 1 discussion are open. The oldest of these readings was 39 minutes ago.

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.

  1. 20A: you are here
  2. 20B
  3. 20CW

Dibs only reads Fall 2026, 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

3.94

Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 20A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

97%

of the 1,179 letter grades

D, F or W

0.3%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

<1%

1 of 1 student passed

The registrar's own records: 1,179 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.91 to 3.96.

Historical grades for ORTIZ, VILMA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A 655 · 90.5%
  • A- 47 · 6.5%
  • B+ 13 · 1.8%
  • B 6 · 0.8%
  • B- 1 · 0.1%
  • C+ 1 · 0.1%
  • F 1 · 0.1%

Percentages are of the 724 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.

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.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
ORTIZ, VILMA reviews ↗ 3.95 3.95 724 3 97% average Open, 1 seat left
MAYS, KYLE TRAVIS-CARRINGTON reviews ↗ 3.96 3.96 518 2 98% - not teaching it
MATSUMOTO, VALERIE J reviews ↗ 3.91 3.91 438 2 95% average not teaching it
MONTEIRO, NATALINA reviews ↗ 3.94 3.94 436 2 97% - not teaching it
KIM, SOO MEE reviews ↗ 3.96 3.96 288 1 97% - not teaching it
BROWN, SCOT DAVID reviews ↗ 3.94 3.94 223 1 96% heavy 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.

Reviews for CLUSTER 20A

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

  • 1 exam, said by 11 reviewers
  • No quizzes, said by 1 reviewer
  • 1 paper, said by 8 reviewers

Read from 76 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

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In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

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. Course 20A is enforced requisite to 20B, which is enforced requisite to 20CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Examination of nature and meaning of race in American society through study of history, literature, and law. Consideration, among other topics, of construction of race as social and cultural category among two or more groups and exploration of ways in which race has shaped understanding of American citizenship. P/NP or 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 15 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 206 and 288 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 288 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking CLUSTER 20A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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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.

Lec 1 · Ortiz, V., Fong, K.N., Simpkins, A.M., and Blu Wakpa, T. · 325 of 326 enrolled

Filled by 135 over about 2 months

325 of 326 · 1 left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:061 Oct 15:40
dibs read 168 of the 175 hours its hourly record covers, 96%, and did not look in 7. dibs had no hourly record before 24 Sep, which is the other 909 of 1084 plotted.325 of 326 enrolled at the newest reading, 39 minutes ago, with 1 left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 15:40, 190 to 325. dibs read 168 of the 175 hours its hourly record here covers, 96%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 7 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 24 September at 09:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 909 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.