CLUSTER 55A Lec 1

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.

55A: you are here
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55B
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55CW

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

Closed.

146 of 146 enrolled, lecture and all discussions summed.

Meets

TR 9:30am-10:45am

Lecture only. You also attend a discussion, listed below.

Final

None on the page dibs read

No exam time on the page dibs read. That is not the registrar saying there is no final.

Grades

no grade history

No grade record for this section yet.

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 9 times since 17 August. The last time was 10 September. 6 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.

Enroll on the registrar Sign in to watch for an opening

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.

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 12 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 55A, 55B, and 55CW, students receive credit for the following requirements: one Historical Analysis GE, two Social Analysis GEs, and one Physical Science without laboratory GE. Upon satisfactorily completing Clusters 55A, 55B, and 55CW, 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 12 hours ago.

Discussions

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so the seat figure above is the sum across all of them and can read open while every discussion you could actually join is full.

6 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

No discussion is open. Whatever the lecture reads, there is currently nothing here to enroll in.

Dis 1A
M 2:00pm-3:50pm

Brooks, S.

Closed.
Dis 1B
M 4:00pm-5:50pm

Brooks, S.

Closed.
Dis 1C
M 6:00pm-7:50pm

Prak, R.

Closed.
Dis 1D
W 10:00am-11:50am

Prak, R.

Closed.
Dis 1E
M 10:00am-11:50am

Chattoraj, A.

Closed.
Dis 1F
M 12:00pm-1:50pm

Chattoraj, A.

Closed.

Discussion sections, with the seats read in the same sweep as the lecture
Section	Meets	Instructor	Seats
Dis 1A	M 2:00pm-3:50pm	Brooks, S.	Closed.
Dis 1B	M 4:00pm-5:50pm	Brooks, S.	Closed.
Dis 1C	M 6:00pm-7:50pm	Prak, R.	Closed.
Dis 1D	W 10:00am-11:50am	Prak, R.	Closed.
Dis 1E	M 10:00am-11:50am	Chattoraj, A.	Closed.
Dis 1F	M 12:00pm-1:50pm	Chattoraj, A.	Closed.

When it meets

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Meets: TR 9:30am-10:45am

Northwest Campus Auditorium 101A

Grades

no grade history

More about CLUSTER 55A, though its grade history is empty too.

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.

There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of about 1 month ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.

Reviews for CLUSTER 55A Search the reviews for U. Sarada Search the reviews for J. Bassett

Will it still be here

high risk chance of closing before your enrollment pass.

Seats over time

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 62.

9 times reopened

146 of 146 · no seats left in its discussions

17 Aug 12:329 Sep 01:471 Oct 15:02 · 3 hours ago

dibs read 168 of the 635 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 467. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 449 of 1084 plotted.

A 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 (26)

Recorded	Enrolled	Capacity	Status	Waitlist	Hours read
1 Oct 15:02	146	146	closed	-	137 of 474
11 Sep 22:42	146	146	closed	-	8 of 34
10 Sep 13:40	134	146	open	-	4 of 17
9 Sep 21:40	134	134	closed	-	4 of 15
9 Sep 07:40	121	134	open	-	2 of 8
9 Sep 00:40	121	121	closed	-	2 of 6
8 Sep 19:40	121	134	open	-	17 of 87
5 Sep 05:40	121	121	closed	-	1 of 38, 37 no hourly record
3 Sep 16:40	107	121	open	-	no hourly record
26 Aug 00:40	107	108	open	-	no hourly record
25 Aug 23:40	96	108	open	-	no hourly record
25 Aug 20:55	107	108	open	-	no hourly record
25 Aug 18:55	96	108	open	-	no hourly record
25 Aug 17:55	107	108	open	-	no hourly record
24 Aug 10:55	96	108	open	-	no hourly record
21 Aug 01:55	96	96	closed	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 22:55	84	96	open	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 21:55	96	96	closed	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 20:55	84	96	open	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 19:55	96	96	closed	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 18:55	84	96	open	-	no hourly record
20 Aug 17:55	96	96	closed	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 17:55	84	96	open	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 15:55	84	84	closed	-	no hourly record
19 Aug 14:55	84	96	open	-	no hourly record
17 Aug 12:32	84	84	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.

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