CLUSTER 73CW
Mind over Matter: History, Science, and Philosophy of Brain--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 2025, 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
3.93
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 73CW. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
96%
of the 676 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 676 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 3.95.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 255 · 37.7%
- A 331 · 49.0%
- A- 66 · 9.8%
- B+ 12 · 1.8%
- B 9 · 1.3%
- C- 2 · 0.3%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- P 1 of 679
- I 1 of 679
- DR 1 of 679
Percentages are of the 676 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIBBONS, SARAH LEE reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.95 | 479 | 3 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| CHANDLER, SCOTT H reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 136 | 1 | 91% | heavy | not teaching it |
| MELDRUM, MARCIA reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.85 | 38 | 2 | 92% | average | not teaching it |
| RIBET, ELIZABETH RACHEL reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 4.00 | 23 | 1 | 100% | - | 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
- 1 exam, 1 mention in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- 1 paper, 4 mentions in past reviews
- 1 presentation, 4 mentions in past reviews
Based on 12 reviews; source checked about 1 month 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 73CW 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
No grade records for this course in the 4 Falls covered, back to Spring 2022. This grade history does not establish current or future offerings.
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 73B. Limited to first-year freshmen. Topics include mental illness, neuroscience in popular culture, and neuroscience of decision making. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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