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Dibs Fall 2026

CLUSTER 73CW

Mind over Matter: History, Science, and Philosophy of Brain--Special Topics

Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 73B. Limited to first-year freshmen. Topics include mental illness, neuroscience in popular culture, and neuroscience of decision making. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.93
n = 676 · 4 terms · ± 0.021
A range
96%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
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.

  • 2022S
  • 1923S
  • 1924S
  • 2025S
Enrolment by term: 22S 20, 23S 19, 24S 19, 25S 20
Peak 20 Most recent 20 in 25S 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 255 · 37.6%
  • A 331 · 48.7%
  • A- 66 · 9.7%
  • B+ 12 · 1.8%
  • B 9 · 1.3%
  • C- 2 · 0.3%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • P 1 · 0.1%
  • I 1 · 0.1%
  • 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
GIBBONS, SARAH LEE 3.95 3.95 479 3 98%
CHANDLER, SCOTT H 3.89 3.89 136 1 91%
MELDRUM, MARCIA 3.87 3.85 38 2 92%
RIBET, ELIZABETH RACHEL 3.98 4.00 23 1 100%

“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