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LIFESCI 7C

Physiology and Human Biology

5 units

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 24 discussions. 2 lectures and 17 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 7 hours ago.

Grades

3.38

Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 7C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

53%

of the 10,387 letter grades

D, F or W

0.8%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

-

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 10,387 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.12 to 3.54.

Historical grades for ESDIN, JOSEPH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 12 · 0.4%
  • A 978 · 31.6%
  • A- 598 · 19.3%
  • B+ 496 · 16.0%
  • B 406 · 13.1%
  • B- 188 · 6.1%
  • C+ 154 · 5.0%
  • C 235 · 7.6%
  • C- 1 · 0.0%
  • D+ 2 · 0.1%
  • D 10 · 0.3%
  • F 15 · 0.5%
  • P 8 of 3,117
  • I 14 of 3,117

Percentages are of the 3,095 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).

How the non-letter outcomes are counted

They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
KHANKAN, RANA RACHAD reviews ↗ 3.40 3.40 4,868 11 54% average not teaching it
ESDIN, JOSEPH reviews ↗ 3.35 3.35 3,095 11 51% average Open, 9 seats left
COOPER, RONALD HALGETH reviews ↗ 3.38 3.38 2,484 8 53% average not teaching it
HSIAO, ELAINE YIH-NIEN reviews ↗ 3.30 3.30 665 2 48% average not teaching it
KO, JULIE reviews ↗ 3.41 3.41 663 2 54% - not teaching it
VAN VEEN, JOHN EDWARD reviews ↗ 3.31 3.30 375 1 46% - not teaching it
PHAM, HUNG DINH reviews ↗ 3.34 3.33 307 1 53% - not teaching it
MARTINEZ, JULIE reviews ↗ 3.31 3.30 189 1 51% - not teaching it
DIXIE, KATIE LEE INGRAHAM reviews ↗ 3.36 3.36 186 1 52% - not teaching it
SOROOSH, ARTIN reviews ↗ 3.34 3.34 181 1 49% - not teaching it
GUTIERREZ, MIGUEL ANGEL reviews ↗ 3.62 3.84 18 · 1 89% heavy not teaching it
Why Predicted is not the Raw average

“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.

Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.

Reviews for LIFESCI 7C

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before LIFESCI 7C. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, three hours; discussion, 75 minutes. Enforced requisite: course 7B. Organization of cells into tissues and organs and principles of physiology of organ systems. Introduction to human genetics and genomics. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 26 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 187 and 387 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 291 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking LIFESCI 7C was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Esdin, J. · 279 of 288 enrolled

Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 17.

279 of 288 · 9 left in its discussions
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 543 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 375. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 552 of 1095 plotted.279 of 288 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 9 left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 262 to 279. dibs read 168 of the 543 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 375 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 15:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 552 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 2 · Pires, D.B. · 248 of 288 enrolled

Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 10 seats.

248 of 288 · 40 left in its discussions
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 10:242 Oct 05:42 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 543 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 375. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 552 of 1095 plotted.248 of 288 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 40 left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 2 Oct 05:42, 258 to 248. dibs read 168 of the 543 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 375 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 15:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 552 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.