CLUSTER 73A
Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?
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 Summer Session A 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
3.67
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 73A. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 1,037 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
10 of 11 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,037 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.54 to 3.80.
- A+ 188 · 18.1%
- A 416 · 40.1%
- A- 181 · 17.5%
- B+ 96 · 9.3%
- B 98 · 9.5%
- B- 22 · 2.1%
- C+ 11 · 1.1%
- C 9 · 0.9%
- C- 2 · 0.2%
- D+ 2 · 0.2%
- D 3 · 0.3%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 8 · 0.8%
- P 10 of 1,050
- NP 1 of 1,050
- I 2 of 1,050
Percentages are of the 1,037 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIBBONS, SARAH LEE reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 621 | 3 | 74% | average | not teaching it |
| KNOWLTON, BARBARA reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.74 | 464 | 2 | 80% | average | not teaching it |
| KRISTAL, EFRAIN reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.66 | 454 | 2 | 73% | light | not teaching it |
| PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.80 | 263 | 1 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
| TROTT, JEREMY MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 253 | 1 | 74% | light | not teaching it |
| CHANDLER, SCOTT H reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.54 | 153 | 1 | 66% | heavy | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 73A, 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 73A is enforced requisite to 73B, which is enforced requisite to 73CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Drawing on several disciplines including disability studies, literary and film analysis, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology, development of interdisciplinary account of how we relate our increasingly sophisticated knowledge of brain to contexts and meanings of subjectivity, mental health, and disability. Students make connections through interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary and historical understandings of brain structure and function; biological, psychological, and philosophical approaches to memory and learning; neuroscientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness; literary and filmic representations of mental illness and disability; and disability and mad studies critiques of biomedical model of mental illness. P/NP or letter grading.