LIFESCI 107
Genetics
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2025: 1 lecture and 16 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 107. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 6,784 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
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: 6,784 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 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 3.42 to 3.82.
Historical grades for PHAM, HUNG DINH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1,040 · 20.4%
- A 2,702 · 53.1%
- A- 355 · 7.0%
- B+ 251 · 4.9%
- B 248 · 4.9%
- B- 134 · 2.6%
- C+ 89 · 1.7%
- C 157 · 3.1%
- C- 74 · 1.5%
- D 9 · 0.2%
- F 32 · 0.6%
- P 2 of 5,106
- NP 2 of 5,106
- I 9 of 5,106
- DR 2 of 5,106
Percentages are of the 5,091 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
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 | Fall 2025 |
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| PHAM, HUNG DINH reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.71 | 5,091 | 11 | 80% | - | Closed by the department |
| KO, JULIE reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.52 | 1,032 | 4 | 72% | very light | not teaching it |
| MALOY, JEFFREY P reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.48 | 365 | 1 | 70% | light | not teaching it |
| COHN, DANIEL H reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.47 | 338 | 1 | 59% | light | not teaching it |
| LASKI, FRANK A reviews ↗ | 3.43 | 3.42 | 323 | 1 | 55% | very light | 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.
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.
What the work looks like
- 3 exams, said by 5 reviewers
- 16 quizzes, said by 15 reviewers
- 8 group works, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 82 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before LIFESCI 107. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 107 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B and LIFESCI 23L, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
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. Requisites: courses 7C, 23L, Chemistry 14A (or 20A), 14C (or 30A). Not open for credit to students with credit for course 4. Advanced Mendelian genetics, recombination, biochemical genetics, mutation, DNA, genetic code, gene regulation, genes in populations. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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 17 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 TR 2:00pm-3:15pmClosed by the department
Pham, H.D. and Wang, A.
3.71predicted, this instructor · 5,091 grades370 enrolled -
not checked yet16 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 (16)
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Dis 1A
W 8:00am-9:15am · La Kretz Hall 120
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1B
W 9:30am-10:45am · La Kretz Hall 120
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1C
W 2:00pm-3:15pm · La Kretz Hall 120
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 3:30pm-4:45pm · La Kretz Hall 120
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Dis 1E
R 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915G
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1F
R 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 5225
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1J
R 5:00pm-6:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915G
Closed by the department22 enrolled
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Dis 1K
F 8:00am-9:15am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department22 enrolled
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Dis 1L
F 9:30am-10:45am · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1M
F 11:00am-12:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Dis 1N
F 12:30pm-1:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Dis 1O
F 2:00pm-3:15pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department24 enrolled
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Dis 1P
F 3:30pm-4:45pm · Mathematical Sciences 3915A
Closed by the department23 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 284 and 429 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 370 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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 · Pham, H.D. and Wang, A. · 370 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 370 seats.
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.