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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER M71B

Biotechnology and Society

(Same as Society and Genetics M71B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course M71A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration of methods, applications, and implications of biotechnology and of ethical, social, and political implications as well as biological underpinnings. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.78
n = 949 · 4 terms · ± 0.018
A range
84%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 22922W
  • 22223W
  • 24824W
  • 25425W
Enrolment by term: 22W 229, 23W 222, 24W 248, 25W 254
Peak 254 Most recent 254 in 25W 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 175 · 18.3%
  • A 492 · 51.5%
  • A- 130 · 13.6%
  • B+ 48 · 5.0%
  • B 59 · 6.2%
  • B- 21 · 2.2%
  • C+ 6 · 0.6%
  • C 9 · 0.9%
  • C- 3 · 0.3%
  • D+ 2 · 0.2%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • D- 2 · 0.2%
  • F 1 · 0.1%
  • P 1 · 0.1%
  • I 5 · 0.5%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
LEE, RACHEL C 3.81 3.81 701 3 86%
RENSEL, MICHELLE A 3.70 3.70 501 2 79%
VAUGHN, RACHEL ANN 3.70 3.70 501 2 79%
SCROGGINS, MICHAEL JASON 3.68 3.68 248 1 77%

“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.

By term