LIFESCI 495
Preparation for College-Level Teaching in Life Sciences
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 50 minutes ago.
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 40 records over 9 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
9%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them.
- P 40 of 459
- S 416 of 459
- I 3 of 459
Percentages are of the 0 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), satisfactory (S), and incompletes (I). 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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| DIXIE, KATIE LEE INGRAHAM reviews ↗ | P/NP | 0 · small sample | 6 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| KENNISON, RACHEL LEE reviews ↗ | P/NP | 0 · small sample | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| HA, BENJAMIN ANDREW reviews ↗ | P/NP | 0 · small sample | 2 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| PARKER, HARRISON reviews ↗ | P/NP | 0 · small sample | 1 | - | - | 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.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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
dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.
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Sem 1 W 4:00pm-5:50pmOpen
Marcroft, T.A.
no grade history14 seats left. 26 of 40 enrolled high risk
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Sem 2 R 4:00pm-5:50pmOpen
Marcroft, T.A.
no grade history29 seats left. 21 of 50 enrolled medium risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 28 and 67 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 45 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
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.