Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?

Grades

3.67

Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 73A. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.019.

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.

By instructor

“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.

Reviews for CLUSTER 73A ↗

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 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 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 02 Sep 02:43: the oldest of these 12 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 TR 5:00pm-6:15pm

  Open

  Phillips, E., Feinsinger, A.L., and Knowlton, B.

  3.79

  this instructor · 263 grades

  5 seats left. 196 of 200 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: First-Year Freshmen Only and New Students Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  11 discussions, 2 open: Dis 1H, F 6:00pm-7:50pm, and Dis 1J, F 6:00pm-7:50pm.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 11 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (11)

  • Dis 1A

    F 10:00am-11:50am · Covel Commons 210

    Closed

    17 of 17 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Covel Commons 210

    Closed

    17 of 17 · 1 over enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Covel Commons 210

    Closed

    17 of 17 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    F 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 210

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 1E

    F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1F

    F 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2278

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1G

    F 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2317

    Closed

    18 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 1H

    F 6:00pm-7:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2317

    Open

    2 seats left.

    17 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1I

    F 4:00pm-5:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

  • Dis 1J

    F 6:00pm-7:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343

    Open

    3 seats left.

    15 of 18 enrolled

  • Dis 1K

    F 10:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 2317

    Closed

    19 of 19 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 156 and 266 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 266 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.