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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER 73B

Mind over Matter: History, Science, and Philosophy of Brain

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 73A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Drawing on several disciplines including disability studies, literary and film analysis, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology, development of multilayered account of how our increasingly sophisticated knowledge of brain relates to experiences of subjectivity, mental health, and disability. Explicitly addresses considerations regarding diversity by examining questions about variation in mental functioning and experience, with specific attention to the way ableism shapes our views about psychiatric and brain-based difference. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.76
n = 724 · 4 terms · ± 0.020
A range
82%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
1%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.3%
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.

  • 13822W
  • 15923W
  • 19224W
  • 24325W
Enrolment by term: 22W 138, 23W 159, 24W 192, 25W 243
Peak 243 Most recent 243 in 25W 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 146 · 19.9%
  • A 345 · 47.1%
  • A- 103 · 14.1%
  • B+ 45 · 6.1%
  • B 47 · 6.4%
  • B- 18 · 2.5%
  • C+ 7 · 1.0%
  • C 7 · 1.0%
  • C- 4 · 0.5%
  • F 2 · 0.3%
  • P 5 · 0.7%
  • I 4 · 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
SUTHERLAND KRISTAL, ROMY 3.78 3.78 432 2 84%
GIBBONS, SARAH LEE 3.78 3.78 432 2 84%
ANESI, JULIANN T 3.73 3.73 346 2 81%
SOLONE, CAITLIN JEAN 3.77 3.77 240 1 83%
KNOWLTON, BARBARA 3.79 3.79 192 1 86%
CHANDLER, SCOTT H 3.79 3.80 138 1 83%

“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