SOC GEN 102
Societal and Medical Issues in Human Genetics
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in SOC GEN 102. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 1,033 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
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: 1,033 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 3.82 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 252 · 24.4%
- A 586 · 56.7%
- A- 115 · 11.1%
- B+ 39 · 3.8%
- B 24 · 2.3%
- B- 6 · 0.6%
- C+ 2 · 0.2%
- C 3 · 0.3%
- C- 1 · 0.1%
- F 5 · 0.5%
- I 5 of 1,038
Percentages are of the 1,033 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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RENSEL, MICHELLE A reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 1,033 | 4 | 92% | very light | not teaching it |
| GARRISON, NANIBAA ANGELA reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.90 | 258 | 1 | 95% | - | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Papers 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 SOC GEN 102 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
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Sequence of entire human genome is now known. Consideration of how this knowledge impacts concepts of ourselves as individuals and of our place in biological universe, concepts of race/ethnicity and gender, ability of DNA-based forensics to identify specific individuals, ownership and commodification of genes, issues of privacy and confidentiality, issues of genetic discrimination, issues of predictive genetic testing. Discussion of human cloning for reproductive and therapeutic purposes. Exposure to medical genetics cases. Discussion of role of whole genome sequencing in clinical setting. Human Genome Project influence on medicine and on our concepts of self and identity. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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