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 Summer Session A 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
3.93
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 73CW. Not a 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.89 to 3.95.
- 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). 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
“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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER 73CW, 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.
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.