LIFESCI 495
Preparation for College-Level Teaching in Life Sciences
Seminar.
Spring 2027: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months 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. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- P 40 of 459
- S 416 of 459
- I 3 of 459
Counts are out of 459 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIXIE, KATIE LEE INGRAHAM reviews ↗ | P/NP | 24 P/NP | 6 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| KENNISON, RACHEL LEE reviews ↗ | P/NP | 9 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| HA, BENJAMIN ANDREW reviews ↗ | P/NP | 7 P/NP | 2 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| PARKER, HARRISON reviews ↗ | P/NP | 9 P/NP | 1 | - | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No reviews were listed in the BruinWalk source checked 7 days ago. Assignment details are unknown. Check the current syllabus.
In Springs
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Springs.
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
Seminar, two hours. Designed for graduate students who are teaching assistants in the Life Sciences Core Curriculum for the first time. To be taken concurrently in the term in which students teach or at most one quarter before they teach. Prepares students for college-level teaching in large enrollment undergraduate courses, and provides professional development to support students pursuing diverse careers in life sciences. Focus on inclusive, student-centered, and evidence-based teaching methodologies that include active learning, group work, formative assessment, backward course design, and reflective teaching practices that incorporate peer observations and constructive feedback. Students must repeat the course for credit if they do not teach within three quarters after first completion. S/U grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Not published yetno enrollment count published
Instructor
Not yet assigned
no grade historySeat risk
no history
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 Spring 2027
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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