ANTHRO M126N
Genes, Disease, and Culture
Also listed as SOC GEN M126: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in ANTHRO M126N. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
78%
of the 502 letter grades
D, F or W
2.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
6 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 502 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 3.59 to 3.75.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 190 · 37.8%
- A 154 · 30.7%
- A- 47 · 9.4%
- B+ 31 · 6.2%
- B 37 · 7.4%
- B- 9 · 1.8%
- C+ 10 · 2.0%
- C 10 · 2.0%
- C- 4 · 0.8%
- D 2 · 0.4%
- F 8 · 1.6%
- P 6 of 520
- NP 2 of 520
- I 10 of 520
Percentages are of the 502 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.66 | 502 | 3 | 78% | very light | 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.
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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.
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In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 3 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
(Formerly numbered 126N.) (Same as Society and Genetics M126.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Introduction to genes, disease, and culture. Introduction to basic concepts in human genetics, expanding upon evolutionary genetic concepts learned in course 1, and survey of both inherited and infectious disease on global level. Wide range of topics include gene-culture co-evolution, niche construction theory, cultural perceptions of disease, cultural selection, biological and environmental determinism, and evolutionary origins of disease. Course is broken down into genes and genomes, Mendelian disease, complex disease, and infectious disease. Discussion of selected readings that integrate cultural perceptions with biological/genetic phenomena. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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