CLUSTER 48A
Political Violence in Modern World: Causes, Cases, and Consequences
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours 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.
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
3.88
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 48A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 689 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: 689 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.73 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 103 · 14.9%
- A 447 · 64.9%
- A- 70 · 10.2%
- B+ 33 · 4.8%
- B 25 · 3.6%
- B- 9 · 1.3%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- P 1 of 700
- I 9 of 700
- DR 1 of 700
Percentages are of the 689 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARROYO CALDERON, PATRICIA reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 492 | 2 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| MCBRIDE, JARED reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 259 | 1 | 91% | light | not teaching it |
| GILLILAND, ANNE JERVOIS reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 259 | 1 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| ROTHBERG, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 259 | 1 | 91% | light | not teaching it |
| BROZGAL, LIA N reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.73 | 197 | 1 | 77% | - | 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 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 11 reviewers
Read from 50 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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 48A 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 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2023.
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 48A is requisite to 48B, which is requisite to 48CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration of causes, dynamics, and consequences of political violence. Political violence can include anything from extra-legal warfare, ethnic cleansing and genocide, civil war, riots and pogroms, terrorism and state repression, revolution and counter-revolution, and more. Political violence is not modern phenomenon: it has been part of human experience from antiquity to present. Examination, from interdisciplinary perspective, of political violence, in particular, extreme form of political violence, genocide. Readings of theoretical and empirical works from history, comparative literature, sociology, political science, psychology, and more. Employs art, film, literature, diaries, memoirs, and news media to encourage critical thinking about political violence. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 12 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 9:30am-10:45amCancelled
No instructors
3.87predicted, all instructors · 689 gradesno enrollment count published -
not checked yetEvery discussion, with its time and seats (11)
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Dis 1A
M 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1B
M 6:00pm-7:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1C
W 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1D
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Covel Commons
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1E
F 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1F
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1G
W 12:00pm-1:50pm · Covel Commons
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1H
W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1I
W 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1J
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1K
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 199 and 259 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 259 in Fall 2023. 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.
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