UCLA ANTHRO 2: Archaeology: Introduction

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 18 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 36 minutes ago.

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Grades

3.71

Average grade awarded in ANTHRO 2. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

81%

of the 2,676 letter grades

D, F or W

1.6%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

96% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 2,676 grades over 11 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.28 to 3.96.

Historical grades for SCHACHNER, GREGSON T, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

A 598 · 93.6%
A- 19 · 3.0%
B+ 9 · 1.4%
B 2 · 0.3%
B- 2 · 0.3%
C+ 2 · 0.3%
C 2 · 0.3%
C- 2 · 0.3%
D- 2 · 0.3%
F 1 · 0.2%
P 13 of 653
I 1 of 653

Percentages are of the 639 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and 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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor	Predicted GPA	Raw	n	Terms	A range	Workload	Fall 2026
SMITH, MONICA L reviews ↗	3.60	3.60	824	3	73%	light	not teaching it
LESURE, RICHARD GARDNER reviews ↗	3.53	3.53	779	3	68%	light	not teaching it
SCHACHNER, GREGSON T reviews ↗	3.93	3.94	639	2	97%	very light	Closed by the department
DUNNAVANT, JUSTIN PEYTON reviews ↗	3.90	3.91	315	1	95%	very light	not teaching it
BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW reviews ↗	3.92	3.95	119	2	97%	-	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.

Reviews for ANTHRO 2

Workload and assignments

Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.

What the work looks like

5 exams, 7 mentions in past reviews
5 quizzes, 4 mentions in past reviews
2 papers, 13 mentions in past reviews

Based on 90 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.

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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, one hour; one field trip. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. General survey of field and laboratory methods, theory, and major findings of anthropological archaeology, including case-study guest lectures presented by several campus archaeologists. 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 18 Oct 22:20: the oldest of these 19 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Section
Lec 1
MWF 10:00am-10:50am

Seats
Closed by the department
Lecture: 311 enrolled

Instructor

Schachner, G.T.

3.93
Predicted GPA
Historical records for SCHACHNER, GREGSON T; 639 letter grades

Seat risk
no history

This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 18 discussions below.
18 discussions, none open. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 18 discussions
- Dis 1A
  M 9:00am-9:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  17 enrolled
- Dis 1B
  M 11:00am-11:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  19 enrolled
- Dis 1C
  M 12:00pm-12:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  16 enrolled
- Dis 1D
  M 1:00pm-1:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  17 enrolled
- Dis 1E
  T 11:00am-11:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  19 enrolled
- Dis 1F
  T 12:00pm-12:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  17 enrolled
- Dis 1G
  T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  17 enrolled
- Dis 1H
  T 2:00pm-2:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  16 enrolled
- Dis 1I
  T 3:00pm-3:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  16 enrolled
- Dis 1J
  W 9:00am-9:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  18 enrolled
- Dis 1K
  R 9:00am-9:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  16 enrolled
- Dis 1L
  R 10:00am-10:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  19 enrolled
- Dis 1M
  R 11:00am-11:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  17 enrolled
- Dis 1N
  R 12:00pm-12:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  17 enrolled
- Dis 1O
  R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  18 enrolled
- Dis 1P
  F 9:00am-9:50am · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  18 enrolled
- Dis 1Q
  F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  19 enrolled
- Dis 1R
  F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Fowler Museum at UCLA A312
  
  Closed by the department
  15 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 261 and 330 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 261 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

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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 · Schachner, G.T. · 311 enrolled

Filled by 69 over 2 months

311 of 306 · no seats left in its discussions

17 Aug 12:3217 Sep 17:2618 Oct 22:20

Checked every one of the 168 hours with hourly history. dibs had no hourly record before 11 Oct, which is the other 1331 of 1499 plotted.

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