MCD BIO 90
Human Stem Cells and Medicine
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in MCD BIO 90. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 151 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
7 of 7 students passed
The registrar's own records: 151 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.78 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 47 · 31.1%
- A 77 · 51.0%
- A- 15 · 9.9%
- B+ 6 · 4.0%
- B 2 · 1.3%
- B- 3 · 2.0%
- C+ 1 · 0.7%
- P 7 of 158
Percentages are of the 151 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, TINA ROSA reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 151 | 5 | 92% | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Labs mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 40 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
dibs has not read a class page for MCD BIO 90 in any term it holds, 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 Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Winter 2024.
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 and one half hours; discussion 90 minutes. Stem cells have potential to revolutionize way medicine is practiced today. Some stem cell therapies are already used successfully to treat thousands of people worldwide. Other stem cell therapies are considered experimental; therefore treatments must be monitored by Food and Drug Administration to ensure safety and efficacy. Some stem cell therapies are offered with minimal scientific justification, relying on hope and hype rather than scientific fact. Exploration of use of stem cells in modern medicine to take close look at science behind some of today's most famous and infamous stem cell medical applications. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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