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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER 73A

Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 73A is enforced requisite to 73B, which is enforced requisite to 73CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Drawing on several disciplines including disability studies, literary and film analysis, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology, development of interdisciplinary account of how we relate our increasingly sophisticated knowledge of brain to contexts and meanings of subjectivity, mental health, and disability. Students make connections through interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary and historical understandings of brain structure and function; biological, psychological, and philosophical approaches to memory and learning; neuroscientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness; literary and filmic representations of mental illness and disability; and disability and mad studies critiques of biomedical model of mental illness. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.63
n = 774 · 4 terms · ± 0.020
A range
72%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
1%
88% of those passed
D / F / W
1.6%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
150 of 154
97% full
 fills TR 5:00pm-6:15pm Phillips, E., Feinsinger, A.L., Knowlton, B.
3.63n=774 · course average

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.

  • 15621F
  • 17022F
  • 20123F
  • 25624F
Enrolment by term: 21F 156, 22F 170, 23F 201, 24F 256
Peak 256 Most recent 256 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 116 · 14.8%
  • A 312 · 39.8%
  • A- 133 · 17.0%
  • B+ 72 · 9.2%
  • B 89 · 11.4%
  • B- 20 · 2.6%
  • C+ 10 · 1.3%
  • C 9 · 1.1%
  • C- 1 · 0.1%
  • D+ 1 · 0.1%
  • D 3 · 0.4%
  • F 8 · 1.0%
  • P 7 · 0.9%
  • NP 1 · 0.1%
  • I 2 · 0.3%

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
GIBBONS, SARAH LEE 3.65 3.65 621 3 74%
KRISTAL, EFRAIN 3.65 3.66 454 2 73%
TROTT, JEREMY MICHAEL 3.65 3.65 253 1 74%
KNOWLTON, BARBARA 3.66 3.66 201 1 73%
CHANDLER, SCOTT H 3.55 3.54 153 1 66%

“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