MIMG 109AL
Research Immersion Laboratory in Microbiology
Grades
3.97
Average grade awarded in MIMG 109AL. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 132 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
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: 132 grades over 3 terms, 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, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.93 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 65 · 49.2%
- A 60 · 45.5%
- A- 3 · 2.3%
- B+ 1 · 0.8%
- B 3 · 2.3%
- I 1 of 133
Percentages are of the 132 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOUKLAS, TEJAS ASHOK reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.97 | 132 | 3 | 97% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| REDDI, KRISANAVANE reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 4.00 | 48 | 1 | 100% | - | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before MIMG 109AL. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MIMG 109AL 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 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, eight hours. Requisites: course 101, Life Sciences 3, 4, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, and 23L. Course 109AL is enforced requisite to 109BL. Limited to Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics premajors and majors and Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors. Research-oriented laboratory experience designed to promote discovery of novel microorganisms. Working in teams, students conduct research projects that incorporate techniques in microbiology and molecular biology and involve use of bioinformatics tools and phylogenetics software for data analysis. Emphasis on reading and understanding scientific literature as well as improving critical thinking skills such as ability to create and evaluate hypotheses or experimentally address scientific questions. Critical aspects of research process, including record keeping, ethics, laboratory safety and citizenry, mechanics of scientific writing, and project responsibilities and ownership. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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