NEUROSC M101A
Neuroscience: From Molecules to Mind--Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
Also listed as MCD BIO M175A, PHYSCI M180A, PSYCH M117A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.20
Average grade awarded in NEUROSC M101A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
46%
of the 1,029 letter grades
D, F or W
3.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,029 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 2.86 to 3.53.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 55 · 5.3%
- A 249 · 24.2%
- A- 169 · 16.4%
- B+ 126 · 12.2%
- B 168 · 16.3%
- B- 57 · 5.5%
- C+ 64 · 6.2%
- C 65 · 6.3%
- C- 44 · 4.3%
- D+ 15 · 1.5%
- D 5 · 0.5%
- D- 4 · 0.4%
- F 8 · 0.8%
- P 2 of 1,040
- NP 2 of 1,040
- I 6 of 1,040
- DR 1 of 1,040
Percentages are of the 1,029 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, STEPHANIE ANN reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.22 | 630 | 3 | 47% | average | not teaching it |
| PIRI, NATIK reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.22 | 630 | 3 | 47% | heavy | not teaching it |
| CHANDLER, SCOTT H reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.07 | 606 | 3 | 38% | average | not teaching it |
| SCHWEIZER, FELIX ERICH reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.39 | 423 | 2 | 58% | - | 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.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 14 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 62 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before NEUROSC M101A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for NEUROSC M101A in Winter 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B, LIFESCI 30B, and MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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
(Same as Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology M175A, Physiological Science M180A, and Psychology M117A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Requisites: Chemistry 14C or 30A (14C may be taken concurrently), Life Sciences 7C, Physics 1B or 1BH or 5C or 6B. Students must receive grade of C- or better to proceed to next course in series. Cellular neurophysiology, membrane potential, action potentials, and synaptic transmission. Sensory systems and motor system; how assemblies of neurons process complex information and control movement. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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