CLUSTER 20CW
Interracial Dynamics in American Culture and Society: Special Topics
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
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
3.91
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 20CW. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 847 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 847 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.89 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 319 · 37.7%
- A 430 · 50.8%
- A- 58 · 6.8%
- B+ 10 · 1.2%
- B 12 · 1.4%
- B- 4 · 0.5%
- C+ 4 · 0.5%
- C 5 · 0.6%
- C- 3 · 0.4%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 1 · 0.1%
- I 7 of 854
Percentages are of the 847 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORTIZ, VILMA reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 806 | 4 | 95% | light | not teaching it |
| DEGUZMAN, JEAN-PAUL CONTRERAS reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 79 | 4 | 97% | very light | not teaching it |
| RIBET, ELIZABETH RACHEL reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 4.00 | 22 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| TAMAI, LILY ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.73 | 21 | 1 | 76% | - | 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 paper, said by 3 reviewers
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 6 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 20CW in any term it holds, 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.
In Falls
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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
Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 20B. Limited to first-year freshmen. Consideration of how experience, debates, and issues of race are represented and understood in historical, legal, cinematic, and literary contexts. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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