CLUSTER 10A
Data, Justice, and Society
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 Fall 2025, 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
3.90
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER 10A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 570 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
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: 570 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 3.81 to 3.95.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 185 · 32.5%
- A 267 · 46.8%
- A- 82 · 14.4%
- B+ 20 · 3.5%
- B 11 · 1.9%
- B- 3 · 0.5%
- C+ 1 · 0.2%
- D+ 1 · 0.2%
- I 1 of 571
Percentages are of the 570 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRESNER, TODD S reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.90 | 570 | 3 | 94% | very light | not teaching it |
| BHAUMIK, MUNIA reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.90 | 570 | 3 | 94% | very light | not teaching it |
| PANAGIA, DAVIDE reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 396 | 2 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| POSNER, MIRIAM reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 396 | 2 | 96% | very light | not teaching it |
| WILLIAMS, JULIET A reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.87 | 348 | 2 | 91% | 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.
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
- No exams, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 papers, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 14 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 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
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 10A is requisite to 10B, which is requisite to 10CW or 10WX. Limited to first-year students. Data-based computation (i.e., algorithms, artificial intelligence, predictive modeling) increasingly play a dominant role in shaping everyday experiences of culture and society. Data and data analytics define everything from social relations and public policy to juridical status and market logistics. Introduction to politics, ethics, applications, history, critiques, and social impact of data. Introduction to how data intersects with philosophical inquiries about justice, (in)equality, power, and freedom. Students obtain deeper historical and critical view of data in society, while gaining understanding of differing and diverse cultural frames of analysis. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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