LIFESCI 30A
Mathematics for Life Scientists
Lecture and lab.
Winter 2026: 1 lecture and 14 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 6 days ago.
Grades
3.40
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 30A. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
64%
of the 8,226 letter grades
D, F or W
5.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 8,226 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 2.88 to 3.74.
- A+ 1,617 · 19.7%
- A 2,531 · 30.8%
- A- 1,129 · 13.7%
- B+ 618 · 7.5%
- B 643 · 7.8%
- B- 535 · 6.5%
- C+ 292 · 3.5%
- C 277 · 3.4%
- C- 161 · 2.0%
- D+ 58 · 0.7%
- D 114 · 1.4%
- D- 148 · 1.8%
- F 103 · 1.3%
- P 2 of 8,274
- NP 5 of 8,274
- I 36 of 8,274
- DR 5 of 8,274
Percentages are of the 8,226 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR). They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication. Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENNOUN, STEVE JACK reviews ↗ | 3.40 | 3.40 | 3,645 | 6 | 64% | light | not teaching it |
| SHEVTSOV, JANE reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 3.36 | 1,586 | 3 | 59% | light | not teaching it |
| DEEDS, ERIC JAMESON reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 947 | 3 | 70% | very light | Closed by the department |
| KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.77 | 734 | 1 | 84% | average | not teaching it |
| SISKAKI, MARIA reviews ↗ | 2.96 | 2.94 | 636 | 1 | 48% | - | not teaching it |
| BOUHADDOU, MEHDI reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.31 | 351 | 1 | 58% | - | not teaching it |
| LANNAN, RYAN reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.91 | 86 | 2 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| HAMMONDS, NAOMI M reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.51 | 82 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| VINET, MICAH reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.48 | 80 | 1 | 59% | - | not teaching it |
| VENUGOPAL, SHARMILA reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.75 | 79 | 1 | 87% | average | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30A, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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; laboratory, two hours. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics (to algebra II), some basic familiarity with computers. Mathematical modeling as tool for understanding dynamics of biological systems. Fundamental concepts of single-variable calculus and development of single- and multi-variable differential equation models of dynamical processes in ecology, physiology, and other subjects in which quantities change with time. Use of computer programming for problem solving, plotting, and dynamical simulation in laboratory. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 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 15 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 TR 2:00pm-3:15pmClosed by the department
Deeds, E.J. and Tamura, H.M.
3.51this instructor · 947 grades330 enrolled -
not checked yet14 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (14)
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Lab 1A
W 8:00am-9:50am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1B
W 10:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1C
W 12:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1D
W 12:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 5217
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1E
W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1F
W 2:00pm-3:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 5217
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1G
W 4:00pm-5:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1H
R 8:00am-9:50am · Mathematical Sciences 3915H
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Lab 1I
R 10:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences 3915H
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1J
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915H
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1K
R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Franz Hall 2288
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Lab 1L
R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Franz Hall 2288
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Lab 1N
F 10:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Lab 1O
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 210 and 370 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 336 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
Lec 1 · Deeds, E.J. and Tamura, H.M. · 330 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute