PSYCH 119E
Neurobiology of Fear
Grades
3.19
Average grade awarded in PSYCH 119E. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
55%
of the 40 letter grades
D, F or W
10.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 40 grades over 1 term, 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.
- A+ 4 · 10.0%
- A 12 · 30.0%
- A- 6 · 15.0%
- B+ 3 · 7.5%
- B 3 · 7.5%
- B- 3 · 7.5%
- C+ 2 · 5.0%
- C 3 · 7.5%
- D+ 2 · 5.0%
- D 1 · 2.5%
- F 1 · 2.5%
- I 1 of 41
Percentages are of the 40 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADHIKARI, AVISHEK reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.19 | 40 | 1 | 55% | - | 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
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Animals face changing threats in nature, and have evolved the ability to dynamically alter behavior to minimize threat exposure and increase the probability of survival. Threats of different modalities and intensities can provoke distinct defensive behaviors, such as freezing or escape. Neural pathways involved in generating and suppressing these behaviors may differ depending on the type of threat, even when considering the same defensive behavior. For example, freezing caused by a fear conditioned tone and by a live predator are controlled by overlapping, but separate circuits. Introduction to the main types of techniques that are covered in the papers that are discussed. These papers demonstrate how and when distinct neural pathways are mobilized to generate the appropriate defensive behavior. Papers cover recent rodent experiments using state-of-the-art methods with high temporal, genetic, and anatomical specificity to investigate the circuits underlying defensive behaviors. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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