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NEURO 215

Variable Topics Research Literature Seminars: Neuroscience

1 unit

Sections & times

Seminar.

Fall 2026: 9 sections. 8 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.

Grades

Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.

Graded P/NP: 3 records over 9 terms.

In the A range

-

no letter grades in the record to count

D, F or W

-

no letter grades in the record to count

Taken pass/no pass

2%

3 of 3 students passed

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 DIPOPPA, MARIO, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • S 13 of 13

Counts are out of 13 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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
MARKOVIC, DEJAN reviews ↗ P/NP 2 P/NP 3 - - not teaching it
DONLEA, JEFFREY MICHAEL reviews ↗ S/U 23 S/U 2 - - not teaching it
RISSMAN, JESSE A reviews ↗ S/U 12 S/U 1 - - not teaching it
NOVITCH, BENNETT G reviews ↗ S/U 20 S/U 2 - - Open, 4 seats left
BEARDEN, CARRIE E reviews ↗ S/U 35 S/U 3 - - not teaching it
LU, DANIEL C reviews ↗ P/NP 3 P/NP 4 - - not teaching it
SUTHANA, NANTHIA A reviews ↗ P/NP 2 P/NP 3 - - not teaching it
ZHANG, YE reviews ↗ S/U 10 S/U 1 - - not teaching it
OPHOFF, ROEL A reviews ↗ S/U 13 S/U 1 - - not teaching it
DIPOPPA, MARIO reviews ↗ S/U 13 S/U 1 - - Open, 13 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.

Reviews for NEURO 215

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.

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In Falls

Ran in 3 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall 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

Seminar, two hours. Critical discussion and analysis of current literature for various neuroscience research topics. Only one topic may be taken twice for credit and applied toward neuroscience graduate requirements. S/U grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 13 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 13 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 9 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

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 · Novitch, B.G. · 6 of 10 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the seat count moved and came back.

6 of 10 · 4 left
18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.6 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 4 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 6 to 6. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 2 · Dipoppa, M. · 7 of 20 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.

7 of 20 · 13 left
18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.7 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 13 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 6 to 7. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 3 · Portera-Cailliau, · 5 of 10 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back.

5 of 10 · 5 left
18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.5 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 5 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 5 to 5. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 4 · Hong, W. and Donlea, J.M. · 4 of 25 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.

4 of 25 · 21 left
18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.4 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 21 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 3 to 4. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 5 · No instructors · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 6 days before that, freed 7 seats.

0 of 10
18 Aug 22:4021 Aug 17:4024 Aug 12:40 · 3 hours ago
135 hours plotted. dibs took 4 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.0 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 24 Aug 12:40, 7 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 135 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 6 · Schlinger, B. and Hong, W. · 3 of 10 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, freed 2 seats.

3 of 10 · 7 left
18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.3 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 7 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 5 to 3. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 7 · Sampath, A.P. · 0 of 10 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.

0 of 10 · 10 left

Both readings say 0 of 10.

18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.0 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 10 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 8 · Schweizer, F.E. · 5 of 10 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 2.

5 of 10 · 5 left
18 Aug 22:409 Sep 20:511 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 597. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1054 plotted.5 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 5 left. Seats from 18 Aug 22:40 to 1 Oct 19:02, 3 to 5. dibs read 168 of the 765 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 597 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 23:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Sem 9 · Hsiao, E.Y. · 4 of 10 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 20 days before that, filled by 4.

4 of 10 · 6 left
11 Sep 20:3221 Sep 19:471 Oct 19:02 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 132 of the 480 hours plotted, 28%, and did not look in 348.4 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, with 6 left. Seats from 11 Sep 20:32 to 1 Oct 19:02, 0 to 4. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 348 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.