MIMG 103AL
Research Immersion Laboratory in Virology
Grades
3.86
Average grade awarded in MIMG 103AL. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 424 letter grades
D, F or W
0.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 424 grades over 10 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 10 terms ran 3.70 to 3.97.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 163 · 38.4%
- A 167 · 39.4%
- A- 51 · 12.0%
- B+ 22 · 5.2%
- B 14 · 3.3%
- B- 2 · 0.5%
- C+ 2 · 0.5%
- C 1 · 0.2%
- F 2 · 0.5%
- P 2 of 427
- DR 1 of 427
Percentages are of the 424 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOUKLAS, TEJAS ASHOK reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 226 | 5 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| FREISE, AMANDA CHRISTINE reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.78 | 166 | 4 | 82% | - | not teaching it |
| VELEZ RAMIREZ, DANIEL EDUARDO reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.89 | 80 | 2 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| REDDI, KRISANAVANE reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.87 | 32 | 1 | 97% | - | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for MIMG 103AL 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 Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably.
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, two and one half hours; laboratory, eight hours. Requisites: course 101, Life Sciences 3, 4, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, and 23L. Course 103AL is requisite to 103BL. Limited to Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors. Research-oriented laboratory experience designed to promote discovery of novel bacterial viruses (phages). Working in teams, students conduct research projects that incorporate techniques in microbiology, virology, and molecular biology and involve use of bioinformatics tools and computational analysis software. Emphasis on reading and understanding scientific literature as well as improving critical thinking skills such as ability to 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 Winter 2026
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