CLUSTER M72B
Sex from Biology to Gendered Society
Also listed as COMM M72B, SOC GEN M72B, SOCIOL M72B: 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 Winter 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
3.68
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER M72B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 461 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
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: 461 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.53 to 3.90.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 14 · 3.0%
- A 247 · 53.6%
- A- 74 · 16.1%
- B+ 56 · 12.1%
- B 46 · 10.0%
- B- 9 · 2.0%
- C+ 5 · 1.1%
- C 10 · 2.2%
- I 1 of 462
Percentages are of the 461 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HASELTON, MARTIE G reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 461 | 3 | 73% | light | not teaching it |
| LYNCH, JESSICA W reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.53 | 158 | 1 | 58% | - | not teaching it |
| STROESSNER, STEVEN JOHN reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.53 | 158 | 1 | 58% | - | not teaching it |
| VAUGHN, RACHEL ANN reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.90 | 158 | 1 | 93% | - | 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.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of 26 days ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CLUSTER M72B 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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 3 Winters.
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 M72B, Society and Genetics M72B, and Sociology M72B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course M72A. 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 Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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