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ANTHRO M126N

Genes, Disease, and Culture

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. 1 discussion is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.

Also listed as SOC GEN M126 (closed by the department): 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 BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW, 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

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
BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW reviews ↗ 3.66 3.66 502 3 78% very light Waitlist, 8 of 18 places taken
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.

Reviews for ANTHRO M126N

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.

dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.

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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 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 : the oldest of these 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 169 and 173 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 173 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking ANTHRO M126N was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Bigham, A.W. · 180 of 180 · 4 over enrolled

Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 19.

180 of 180 · no seats left in its discussions
18 Aug 19:409 Sep 22:112 Oct 00:42 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 538 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 370. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 524 of 1062 plotted.180 of 180 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 18 Aug 19:40 to 2 Oct 00:42, 161 to 180. dibs read 168 of the 538 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 370 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 15:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 524 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.