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 C 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 student 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. 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 3.54 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- 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).
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 | Summer Session C 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 |
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 7 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- Labs mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 84 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.
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.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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