CLUSTER M72A
Sex from Biology to Gendered Society
Also listed as COMM M72A, SOC GEN M72A, SOCIOL M72A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
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 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
3.70
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER M72A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 667 letter grades
D, F or W
0.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 667 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 3.62 to 3.88.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 32 · 4.8%
- A 357 · 53.5%
- A- 116 · 17.4%
- B+ 68 · 10.2%
- B 68 · 10.2%
- B- 10 · 1.5%
- C+ 8 · 1.2%
- C 3 · 0.4%
- C- 3 · 0.4%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 1 · 0.1%
- DR 1 of 668
Percentages are of the 667 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HASELTON, MARTIE G reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.70 | 667 | 4 | 76% | average | not teaching it |
| SCHLINGER, BARNETT reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 510 | 3 | 71% | light | not teaching it |
| VAUGHN, RACHEL ANN reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 510 | 3 | 71% | light | not teaching it |
| LYNCH, JESSICA W reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 159 | 1 | 74% | - | not teaching it |
| STROESSNER, STEVEN JOHN reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.62 | 159 | 1 | 66% | - | 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
- 3 quizzes, said by 1 reviewer
- 2 papers, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 26 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 3 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2022. That is 3 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
(Same as Communication M72A, Society and Genetics M72A, and Sociology M72A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M72A is enforced requisite to M72B, which is enforced requisite to M72CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Examination of many ways in which sex and sexual identity shape and are shaped by biological and social forces, approached from complementary perspectives of anthropology, biology, medicine, and sociology. Specific topics include biological origins of sex differences, intersex, gender identity, gender inequality, homosexuality, sex differences, sex/gender and law, and politics of sex research. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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