CLUSTER 60A
America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 12 discussions. 1 lecture and 1 discussion are open. The oldest of these readings was 34 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.
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
3.64
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 60A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
72%
of the 1,239 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,239 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 3.46 to 3.77.
Historical grades for FINK, ROBERT W, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 364 · 47.7%
- A- 225 · 29.5%
- B+ 110 · 14.4%
- B 37 · 4.8%
- B- 11 · 1.4%
- C+ 2 · 0.3%
- C 5 · 0.7%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D- 3 · 0.4%
- F 5 · 0.7%
- P 1 of 764
Percentages are of the 763 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DECKER, JEFFREY LOUIS reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 1,001 | 4 | 71% | average | not teaching it |
| AVILA, ERIC R reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 1,001 | 4 | 76% | light | not teaching it |
| FINK, ROBERT W reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 763 | 3 | 77% | light | Open, 1 seat left |
| VAVRECK, LYNN reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 763 | 3 | 77% | 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.
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
- 1 exam, said by 3 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 2 papers, said by 6 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 74 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.
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 60A is enforced requisite to 60B, which is enforced requisite to 60CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. 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 13 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 3:30pm-4:45pmOpen
Fink, R.W., Decker, J.L., Avila, E.R., and Vavreck, L.
3.68predicted, this instructor · 763 grades1 seat left. 287 of 288 enrolled high risk
12 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1L, R 4:00pm-5:50pm.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 12 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (12)
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Dis 1A
R 10:00am-11:50am · Covel Commons 210
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1B
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Covel Commons 210
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1C
R 10:00am-11:50am · Covel Commons 225
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1D
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Covel Commons 225
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1E
R 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons 225
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1F
R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 225
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1J
R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1K
R 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1L
R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Open1 seat left.
24 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 238 and 287 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 287 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 60A 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 · Fink, R.W., Decker, J.L., Avila, E.R., and Vavreck, L. · 287 of 288 enrolled
Filled by 118 over about 2 months
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.