UCLA ECON 1: Principles of Economics

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

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 10 discussions. 1 lecture and 7 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 5 hours ago.

Grades

2.97

Average grade awarded in ECON 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

39%

of the 5,990 letter grades

D, F or W

9.2%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

69% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 5,990 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

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

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.52 to 3.67.

Historical grades for SITARSKI, JACK ANDREW, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

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
ROJAS, RANDALL R reviews ↗	2.94	2.94	2,363	10	41%	light	not teaching it
OHANIAN, LEE reviews ↗	2.96	2.96	1,642	5	32%	light	not teaching it
BOSWELL, KIMBERLY SASHA-GAYE reviews ↗	3.24	3.25	721	2	52%	very light	not teaching it
OSEI TWUMASI, OLIVIA IRENA reviews ↗	2.98	2.98	614	3	41%	very light	not teaching it
MCDEVITT, EDWARD P reviews ↗	2.86	2.86	448	2	34%	-	not teaching it
MARTNER, ANTONIO reviews ↗	2.79	2.77	170	2	28%	very light	not teaching it
GUERRERO AMEZAGA, MARIA ELENA reviews ↗	2.85	2.84	132	1	31%	-	not teaching it
MOLLIGO, PATRICK ANTHONY reviews ↗	3.30	3.36	98	2	51%	-	not teaching it
CONVERY, PATRICK DENNIS reviews ↗	2.61	2.54	83	1	39%	very light	not teaching it
FERNANDES FIEDLER, FILIPE reviews ↗	3.11	3.20	27	1	48%	-	not teaching it

Why Predicted is not the Raw average

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Reviews for ECON 1

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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. Introduction to principles of economic analysis, economic institutions, and issues of economic policy. Emphasis on allocation of resources and distribution of income through price system. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 01 Oct 19:02: the oldest of these 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45am
Open

Sitarski, J.A. and McDevitt, E.P.

2.98
predicted, all instructors · 5,990 grades

90 seats left. 310 of 400 enrolled medium risk

10 discussions, 7 open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (10)
- Dis 1A
  M 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3157
  
  Closed
  40 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1B
  R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3170
  
  Open
  12 seats left.
  
  28 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1C
  F 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3178
  
  Open
  23 seats left.
  
  17 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1D
  T 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3211
  
  Open
  12 seats left.
  
  28 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1E
  W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1337
  
  Waitlist
  1 of 2 places taken.
  
  40 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1F
  W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3211
  
  Open
  18 seats left.
  
  22 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1H
  F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Bunche Hall 2160
  
  Open
  2 seats left.
  
  38 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1J
  T 4:00pm-4:50pm · Bunche Hall 3156
  
  Open
  7 seats left.
  
  33 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1M
  M 10:00am-10:50am · Bunche Hall 3164
  
  Closed
  40 of 40 enrolled
- Dis 1O
  W 5:00pm-5:50pm · Bunche Hall 3178
  
  Open
  16 seats left.
  
  24 of 40 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 87 and 553 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 284 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

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Lec 1 · Sitarski, J.A. and McDevitt, E.P. · 310 of 400 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 82.

310 of 400 · 90 left in its discussions

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 06:491 Oct 22:32 · 2 hours ago

dibs read 168 of the 530 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 362. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 558 of 1088 plotted.

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