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CLUSTER 60A · Lec 1

America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974

Fall 2026Fink, R.W., Decker, J.L., Avila, E.R., and Vavreck, L.6 units

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.

  1. 60A: you are here
  2. 60B
  3. 60CW

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

Open, 1 seat left.

287 of 288 enrolled, lecture and all discussions summed.

Meets

MW 3:30pm-4:45pm

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

3.68
predicted, this instructor · 763 grades

763 letter grades, Fink, R.W., Decker, J.L., Avila, E.R., and Vavreck, L..

Read 34 minutes ago. This is a recent reading, not a live seat count.

dibs has seen this section open 35 times since 17 August. The last time was 1 October. 12 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.

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Before you can enroll

Registrar's Restrictions cell, read 3 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 60A, 60B, and 60CW, students receive credit for the following requirements: one GE each in Literary and Cultural Analysis, Visual and Performing Arts, Historical Analysis, Social Analysis. Upon satisfactorily completing Clusters 60A, 60B, and 60CW, 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 3 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.

12 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1G, R 10:00am-11:50am.

  • Dis 1A

    R 10:00am-11:50am

    Vilchis-Zarate, L.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1B

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm

    Vilchis-Zarate, L.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1C

    R 10:00am-11:50am

    Yamamoto, M.C.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1D

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm

    Yamamoto, M.C.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1E

    R 2:00pm-3:50pm

    Warshauer, C.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1F

    R 4:00pm-5:50pm

    Warshauer, C.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1G

    R 10:00am-11:50am

    Head, E.M.

    Open, 1 seat left.

  • Dis 1H

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm

    Head, E.M.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1I

    R 2:00pm-3:50pm

    Becker, C.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1J

    R 4:00pm-5:50pm

    Becker, C.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1K

    R 2:00pm-3:50pm

    Ortiz, E.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1L

    R 4:00pm-5:50pm

    Ortiz, E.

    Closed.

When it meets

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Meets: MW 3:30pm-4:45pm

Discussions: R 10:00am-11:50am

De Neve Plaza Commons Building P350

Grades

3.68
predicted, this instructor · 763 grades

Of the 3 other people in the grade record for CLUSTER 60A, the 2 with the most grades: DECKER, JEFFREY LOUIS at 3.63 over 1,001 grades and AVILA, ERIC R at 3.68 over 1,001 grades.

A range
77%
P/NP
<1%
D/F/W
1.2%

Full grade history for CLUSTER 60A

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.

Workload, light. 3.5 of 5 for Robert Fink, where 5 is lightest. Read 30 days ago.

What the work looks like

  • 1 exam, said by 3 reviewers
  • Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
  • 2 papers, said by 6 reviewers
  • Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer

Read from 74 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.

CLUSTER 60A reviews for Robert Fink, one of 4 listed Reviews for all professors of CLUSTER 60A

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.

  • 23921F
  • 23822F
  • 23923F
  • 23824F
  • 28725F
Enrollment by term: 21F 239, 22F 238, 23F 239, 24F 238, 25F 287

Peak 287 · most recent 25F at 287

Seats over time

Filled by 118 over about 2 months

35 times reopened
287 of 288 · 1 left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:311 Oct 16:30
dibs read 168 of the 176 hours its hourly record covers, 95%, and did not look in 8. dibs had no hourly record before 24 Sep, which is the other 909 of 1085 plotted.287 of 288 enrolled at the newest reading, 34 minutes ago, with 1 left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 16:30, 169 to 287. dibs read 168 of the 176 hours its hourly record here covers, 95%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 8 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 24 September at 09:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 909 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.

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: 34 minutes ago.

Show the readings (74)
Recorded Enrolled Capacity Status Waitlist Hours read
1 Oct 16:30 287 288 open - 2 of 2
1 Oct 15:02 287 288 open - 2 of 2
1 Oct 14:50 288 288 closed - 2 of 2
1 Oct 13:10 287 288 open - 2 of 2
1 Oct 12:20 288 288 closed - 2 of 2
1 Oct 11:32 287 288 open - 62 of 69
28 Sep 15:50 288 288 closed - 1 of 1
28 Sep 15:30 287 288 open - 66 of 66
25 Sep 22:00 288 288 closed - 2 of 2
25 Sep 21:10 287 288 open - 7 of 7
25 Sep 15:52 288 288 closed - 4 of 4
25 Sep 12:22 287 288 open - 2 of 2
25 Sep 11:40 288 288 closed - 2 of 2
25 Sep 10:50 287 288 open - 2 of 2
25 Sep 09:40 288 288 closed - 2 of 2
25 Sep 08:10 287 288 open - 2 of 2
25 Sep 07:20 288 288 closed - 2 of 2
25 Sep 06:20 287 288 open - 21 of 205, 183 no hourly record
16 Sep 18:50 288 288 closed - no hourly record
16 Sep 18:12 287 288 open - no hourly record
15 Sep 22:20 288 288 closed - no hourly record
15 Sep 21:20 287 288 open - no hourly record
15 Sep 19:50 288 288 closed - no hourly record
15 Sep 18:50 287 288 open - no hourly record
15 Sep 18:30 288 288 closed - no hourly record
15 Sep 16:12 287 288 open - no hourly record
15 Sep 12:42 288 288 closed - no hourly record
15 Sep 12:30 286 288 open - no hourly record
12 Sep 01:10 288 288 closed - no hourly record
12 Sep 00:40 264 288 open - no hourly record
12 Sep 00:12 288 288 closed - no hourly record
11 Sep 23:10 264 288 open - no hourly record
11 Sep 22:42 288 288 closed - no hourly record
11 Sep 22:10 264 288 open - no hourly record
11 Sep 21:40 287 288 open - no hourly record
11 Sep 20:32 264 288 open - no hourly record
11 Sep 20:00 288 288 closed - no hourly record
11 Sep 19:40 287 288 open - no hourly record
11 Sep 19:00 288 288 closed - no hourly record
11 Sep 18:30 287 288 open - no hourly record
10 Sep 11:10 264 288 open - no hourly record
9 Sep 18:30 264 264 closed - no hourly record
9 Sep 01:10 241 264 open - no hourly record
9 Sep 00:40 241 241 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 23:30 241 264 open - no hourly record
8 Sep 22:50 241 241 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 21:41 241 264 open - no hourly record
8 Sep 21:10 241 241 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 20:40 241 264 open - no hourly record
8 Sep 20:10 241 241 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 19:40 241 264 open - no hourly record
8 Sep 18:40 241 241 closed - no hourly record
8 Sep 18:10 241 264 open - no hourly record
5 Sep 01:10 241 241 closed - no hourly record
5 Sep 00:40 218 241 open - no hourly record
5 Sep 00:10 241 241 closed - no hourly record
5 Sep 00:00 238 241 open - no hourly record
4 Sep 23:40 241 241 closed - no hourly record
3 Sep 13:50 218 241 open - no hourly record
25 Aug 19:55 217 217 closed - no hourly record
24 Aug 19:55 196 217 open - no hourly record
24 Aug 17:55 194 194 closed - no hourly record
24 Aug 10:55 196 217 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 23:55 194 194 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 22:55 169 194 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 21:55 194 194 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 20:55 169 194 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 19:55 194 194 closed - no hourly record
20 Aug 18:55 169 194 open - no hourly record
20 Aug 17:55 194 194 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 19:55 169 194 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 18:55 169 169 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 15:55 169 194 open - no hourly record
17 Aug 12:32 169 169 closed - -
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