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Dibs Fall 2026

SOC GEN 5

Integrative Approaches to Human Biology and Society

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to concept of problem-based approaches to study of biology and society and areas of concentration, such as bioethics and public science policy, evolutionary biology, culture, and behavior, historical and social studies of life sciences, medical genetics and public health, and population genetics and history, and central thematic issues shared across concentrations, such as commercialization of life and public understanding of science. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.64
n = 1,052 · 7 terms · ± 0.017
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
1.0%
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.

  • 23422W
  • 23023W
  • 23324W
  • 11824F
  • 16025W
Enrolment by term: 22W 234, 23W 230, 24W 233, 24F 118, 25W 160
Peak 234 Most recent 160 in 25W 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 124 · 11.7%
  • A 491 · 46.4%
  • A- 150 · 14.2%
  • B+ 94 · 8.9%
  • B 97 · 9.2%
  • B- 46 · 4.3%
  • C+ 17 · 1.6%
  • C 15 · 1.4%
  • C- 8 · 0.8%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • D- 1 · 0.1%
  • F 8 · 0.8%
  • I 6 · 0.6%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

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
MCEVOY, MEGAN MARIE 3.76 3.76 461 2 81%
LANDECKER, HANNAH LOUISE 3.45 3.44 393 2 57%
VENKAT, BHARAT J 3.54 3.53 160 1 68%
SCROGGINS, MICHAEL JASON 3.84 3.85 148 2 91%
ALLARD, PATRICK 3.43 3.38 50 1 60%

“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