MCD BIO M175A
Neuroscience: From Molecules to Mind--Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 10 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 30 minutes ago.
Also listed as NEUROSC M101A (closed, 230 of 230 enrolled, standing limit), PHYSCI M180A (closed, 18 of 18 enrolled), PSYCH M117A (closed, 18 of 18 enrolled, standing limit): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.14
Average grade awarded in MCD BIO M175A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
43%
of the 76 letter grades
D, F or W
5.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
6%
4 of 5 students passed
The registrar's own records: 76 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 2.75 to 3.44.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 5 · 6.6%
- A 15 · 19.7%
- A- 13 · 17.1%
- B+ 9 · 11.8%
- B 15 · 19.7%
- B- 3 · 3.9%
- C+ 6 · 7.9%
- C 1 · 1.3%
- C- 5 · 6.6%
- D 1 · 1.3%
- D- 3 · 3.9%
- P 4 of 81
- NP 1 of 81
Percentages are of the 76 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHANDLER, SCOTT H reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.14 | 76 | 5 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
| WHITE, STEPHANIE ANN reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.11 | 50 | 3 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| PIRI, NATIK reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.11 | 50 | 3 | 44% | - | 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.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of 26 days ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before MCD BIO M175A. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B, LIFESCI 30B, and MATH 3B, 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
(Same as Neuroscience M101A, Physiological Science M180A, and Psychology M117A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Requisites: Chemistry 14C or 30A (14C may be taken concurrently), Life Sciences 7C, Physics 1B or 1BH or 5C or 6B. Students must receive grade of C- or better to proceed to next course in series. Cellular neurophysiology, membrane potential, action potentials, and synaptic transmission. Sensory systems and motor system; how assemblies of neurons process complex information and control movement. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 4:00pm-5:50pmClosed
Peng, Y., Schweizer, F.E., and White, S.A.
3.22predicted, all instructors · 76 grades18 of 18 enrolled high risk
10 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 10 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (10)
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Dis 1A
F 8:00am-9:15am · Royce Hall 160
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 9:30am-10:45am · Public Affairs Building 1337
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 11:00am-12:15pm · Rolfe Hall 3135
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 12:30pm-1:45pm · Public Affairs Building 1264
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 2:00pm-3:15pm · Public Affairs Building 1278
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1F
F 8:00am-9:15am · Boelter Hall 5272
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1G
F 9:30am-10:45am · Rolfe Hall 3135
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1H
F 11:00am-12:15pm · Public Affairs Building 2242
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Dis 1I
F 12:30pm-1:45pm · Bunche Hall 3211
Closed by the departmentno enrollment count published
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Dis 1J
F 2:00pm-3:15pm · Public Affairs Building 1270
Closed2 of 2 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 19 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 16 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MCD BIO M175A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
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 · Peng, Y., Schweizer, F.E., and White, S.A. · 18 of 18 enrolled
Same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the seat count moved and came back over about 2 months
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.