CLUSTER 73A
Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 11 discussions. 1 lecture and 4 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 10 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
3.67
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 PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 72 · 27.4%
- A 104 · 39.5%
- A- 48 · 18.3%
- B+ 24 · 9.1%
- B 9 · 3.4%
- B- 2 · 0.8%
- C+ 1 · 0.4%
- C- 1 · 0.4%
- D+ 1 · 0.4%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- P 3 of 266
Percentages are of the 263 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 |
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| 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% | - | Open, 8 seats left |
| 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 7 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 3 mentions in past reviews
- Labs mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 84 reviews; source checked about 2 months 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 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
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
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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Seats
Open8 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 261 of 267 enrolled
Instructor
Phillips, E., Feinsinger, A.L., and Knowlton, B.
3.79Predicted GPA
Historical records for PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH; 263 letter gradesSeat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 11 discussions below.
11 discussions, 4 open: Dis 1D, F 4:00pm-5:50pm, Dis 1F, F 4:00pm-5:50pm, Dis 1H, F 6:00pm-7:50pm, and Dis 1J, F 6:00pm-7:50pm.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 11 discussions
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Closed
23 of 23 enrolled
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Closed
23 of 23 enrolled
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Closed
23 of 23 · 2 over enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
22 of 23 enrolled
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
24 of 25 enrolled
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
24 of 25 enrolled
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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Open
5 seats left.
20 of 25 enrolled
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking CLUSTER 73A 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 · Phillips, E., Feinsinger, A.L., and Knowlton, B. · 261 of 267 enrolled
Nothing read since 17 Oct, 10 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 111.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.