CLUSTER M71A · Dis 1H
Biotechnology and Society
Also listed as SOC GEN M71A (closed by the department, standing limit): 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 Fall 2026, 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.
Seats, time, final and grades
Seats
Closed.
25 of 25 enrolled.
Meets
T 12:00pm-1:50pm
This discussion only. You also attend Lec 1.
Final
Thu 10 Dec, 3:00pm to 6:00pm
One exam for the whole class, Los Angeles time.
Read 14 hours ago.
Grades
1,271 letter grades, everyone who has taught CLUSTER M71A.
Read 3 hours ago. The latest refresh is overdue. Seats and instructors may have changed since. Check the registrar before enrolling.
dibs has seen this section open 10 times since 17 August. The last time was 19 September. 8 of those were readings where the capacity figure moved and the enrolled count did not, so dibs could not tell whether a seat existed and did not send an alert.
Watching is the one thing here that needs an account, because an alert needs somewhere to go. Everything else on this page works signed out.
Put this class on a board
A board is one quarter you are drafting, so it needs an account to live in. Signing in brings you straight back to this page, with this class still in front of you.
Before you can enroll
Registrar's Restrictions cell, read 6 hours ago: "First-Year Freshmen Only".
From the registrar limited early, then open
Seats are held for entering students who enroll through New Student Orientation sessions beginning July 2, 2026. New student restrictions will be lifted on September 15, 2026 at 8 a.m. Upon satisfactorily completing Clusters M71A, M71B, and M71CW, students receive credit for the following requirements: one GE each in Literary and Cultural Analysis, Historical Analysis, Social Analysis, and Life Sciences w/o lab. Upon satisfactorily completing Clusters M71A, M71B, and M71CW, students will fulfill the Writing II requirement. Students must receive a grade of D- or better each quarter to receive general education credit and continue in the course. To receive credit for Writing II, students must satisfy Writing I by the end of the year, successfully complete fall and winter quarters, and earn a grade of C or better in spring quarter. For a complete summary of clusters credits, see https://www.uei.ucla.edu/academic-programs/ucla-cluster-program/benefits .
The limit stands until 15 September, and lifts then. dibs still counts this class as one you can take, but not yet. This class is also First-Year Freshmen Only, which that date does not lift.
Restrictions read 6 hours ago.
When it meets
Meets: T 12:00pm-1:50pm
Lecture: MW 12:30pm-1:45pm
Public Affairs Building 1343
Grades
Of the 5 people in the grade record for CLUSTER M71A, the 2 with the most grades: PANOFSKY, AARON L at 3.85 over 1,031 grades and RENSEL, MICHELLE A at 3.85 over 1,026 grades.
- A range
- 90%
- P/NP
- <1%
- D/F/W
- 0.6%
What students say
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast it fills. For what the class is actually like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 3 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 2 reviewers
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 62 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.
Will it still be here
high risk chance of closing before your enrollment pass.
Final enrollment per term from four years of grade data. Summer excluded: different population, different pass structure.
- 24621F
- 24022F
- 26023F
- 26024F
- 26725F
Peak 267 · most recent 25F at 267
Seats over time
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 10.
10 times reopenedA dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist. Flat between dots joins recorded counts; changes between reads may be missed. The line starts when dibs first saw this section rather than reaching back before it existed. The last one is the last time dibs read this section, moved or not, and that was 3 hours ago. It is where the line stops, not where the count is now.
Show the readings (33)
| Recorded | Enrolled | Capacity | Status | Waitlist | Hours read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 15:02 | 25 | 25 | closed | - | 60 of 213 |
| 22 Sep 19:42 | 25 | 25 | closed | - | 22 of 75 |
| 19 Sep 17:52 | 24 | 25 | open | - | 54 of 188 |
| 11 Sep 22:42 | 25 | 25 | closed | - | 8 of 34 |
| 10 Sep 13:40 | 23 | 25 | open | - | 4 of 17 |
| 9 Sep 21:40 | 23 | 23 | closed | - | 4 of 15 |
| 9 Sep 07:40 | 20 | 23 | open | - | 2 of 8 |
| 9 Sep 00:40 | 20 | 21 | open | - | 2 of 6 |
| 8 Sep 19:40 | 20 | 23 | open | - | 17 of 87 |
| 5 Sep 05:40 | 20 | 21 | open | - | 4 of 38, 27 no hourly record |
| 3 Sep 16:40 | 19 | 21 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 19:40 | 19 | 19 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 18:40 | 17 | 19 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 25 Aug 17:55 | 19 | 19 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 24 Aug 19:55 | 17 | 19 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 24 Aug 17:55 | 17 | 17 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 24 Aug 10:55 | 17 | 19 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 24 Aug 01:55 | 17 | 17 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 21 Aug 01:55 | 16 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 20 Aug 22:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 20 Aug 21:55 | 16 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 20 Aug 20:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 20 Aug 19:55 | 16 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 20 Aug 18:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 20 Aug 17:55 | 16 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 21:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 19:55 | 15 | 15 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 18:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 15:55 | 15 | 15 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 14:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 13:55 | 15 | 15 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 19 Aug 12:55 | 15 | 17 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Aug 16:42 | 15 | 15 | closed | - | - |
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.
Class chat
Nobody on dibs watches this class or has it on a plan yet. Nobody has posted yet.
Dis 1H shares one room with Lec 1 and every other discussion under it, because that is what a student means by "my class".
Reading a room needs no account. Posting does, and it is free.