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 Spring 2027, 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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.