APP CHM 495
Teaching Assistant Seminar
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 51 minutes ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 31 records over 2 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 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 DIACONESCU, PAULA LOREDANA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- S 31 of 31
Counts are out of 31 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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 |
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| DIACONESCU, PAULA LOREDANA reviews ↗ | S/U | 31 S/U | 2 | - | - | Open, 21 seats left |
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.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, two hours; discussion, two hours. Designed for graduate students. First-time teaching assistants (TAs) are given a supportive group environment with the goal of addressing practical and pedagogical aspects of teaching. Students gain resources to become more effective and reflective as teachers. Discussion of challenges and triumphs to enhance current skill sets and develop new tools for future instructional positions. Topics include active learning, peer instruction, and other collaborative or group activities that promote transparency and equity in the classroom. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 M 4:00pm-5:30pmOpenno grade history
21 seats left. 19 of 40 enrolled low risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 14 and 17 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 17 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 APP CHM 495 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
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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.
Sem 1 · Diaconescu, P.L. · 19 of 40 enrolled
Filled by 19 over about 1 month
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.