Scientific Analysis and Communication I

Grades

4.00

Average grade awarded in MCD BIO 180A. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.044.

The registrar's own records: 185 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them.

By instructor

“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.

Reviews for MCD BIO 180A ↗

What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for MCD BIO 180A, 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 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

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 2025

Seat counts as of 25 Aug 03:08: the oldest of these 2 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

• Sem 1 T 8:00am-9:50am

  Closed

  Shahan, R.

  3.99

  course average · 185 grades

  17 of 17 enrolled - i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  not checked yet
• Sem 2 R 12:00pm-1:50pm

  Closed

  Lough-Stevens, M.J

  4.00

  this instructor · 53 grades

  20 of 20 enrolled - i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  not checked yet

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 11 and 22 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 19 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2025

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.