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Filler classes

Units to stay full time, or a cushion under your GPA, from whichever department will have you. Every class here is one you can actually enroll in, offered in Fall 2026, ranked by the grades it really gives.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and Dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

Big lectures only, by default. Chamber Ensembles: Strings averages a 4.00, but you audition into it and everyone there plays seriously: that average is about who enrolls, not about how it grades. Ensembles, studios, journal clubs and practicums are left out unless you ask for them.

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    9 classes shown · 66 hidden: you do not have the prerequisites · 183 hidden: restricted, and we cannot confirm you qualify · 11 hidden: GE clusters are a first-year sequence, and you are not recorded as an incoming first-year

    Counted among the 400 highest-grading courses that matched your filters, not the whole catalog: 122 more matched and grade below them. Narrow by department, level or units to look further down the list.

    Class Predicted GPA Units D/F/W Status Seat risk Meets
    FILM TV 184B
    Overview of Contemporary Television Industry
    Upper division · Nagle, P.G., Garrett, R.N., Bhattacharyya, A.
    3.98
    this instructor · 145 grades
    4.0 0.0% Open
    3 left
    high risk W 7:00pm-9:50pm
    HIN-URD 1
    Introductory Hindi-Urdu
    Lower division · Farooque, S.A.
    enrollment rules apply · REQUIRED: SEE http://www.alc.ucla.edu/placement-exams/ FOR MANDATORY ENROLLMENT RULES, INCLUDING PLACEMENT TESTS, FOR...
    3.91
    this instructor · 194 grades
    5.0 1.0% Open
    13 left
    high risk TR 9:30am-10:45am
    FILIPNO 1
    Introductory Filipino
    Lower division · Domingo, N.P.
    enrollment rules apply · REQUIRED: SEE http://www.alc.ucla.edu/placement-exams/ FOR MANDATORY ENROLLMENT RULES, INCLUDING PLACEMENT TESTS, FOR...
    3.76
    this instructor · 231 grades
    5.0 0.9% Open
    2 left
    high risk TR 2:00pm-3:15pm
    EPS SCI M7
    Perils of Space: Introduction to Space Weather
    Lower division · Varney, R.H.

    Also listed as A&O SCI M7: the same class.

    3.61
    this instructor · 87 grades
    4.0 2.3% Open
    8 left
    high risk MW 2:00pm-3:15pm
    HIST 172B
    Japanese History: Early Modern, 1600 to 1868
    Upper division · The Staff
    3.48
    course average · 115 grades
    4.0 0.0% Open
    38 left
    high risk MW 2:00pm-3:15pm
    PHYSICS 105B
    Analytic Mechanics
    Upper division · Bern, Z. · has requisites
    3.40
    course average · 429 grades
    4.0 4.7% Open
    5 left
    medium risk MWF 10:00am-10:50am
    AM IND M10
    Introduction to American Indian Studies
    Lower division · Taitano Delisle, C

    Also listed as WL ARTS M23: the same class.

    3.38
    this instructor · 54 grades
    5.0 3.7% Open
    2 left
    medium risk TR 9:30am-10:45am
    PHYSICS 112
    Thermal Physics
    Upper division · Roy, R. · has requisites
    3.32
    course average · 325 grades
    4.0 1.8% Open
    12 left
    medium risk TR 2:00pm-3:15pm
    A&O SCI 3
    Meteorology and Extreme Weather
    Lower division · Baijnath-Rodino, J, TA
    3.00
    this instructor · 106 grades
    4.0 7.5% Open
    52 left
    medium risk MW 9:30am-10:45am

    A high average still is not the same as an easy class. Some courses grade well because the people in them are strong, not because the class is gentle: read the D/F/W column beside the average, and the reviews on BruinWalk beside both. "Eligible" here means the registrar publishes nothing that would stop you enrolling; departments that gate by advising rather than by enforcement publish no requisites at all. Past grading does not bind a future instructor, and none of this is advice: check MyUCLA before you plan around it.