PSYCH M117A
Neuroscience: From Molecules to Mind--Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
Also listed as MCD BIO M175A, NEUROSC M101A, PHYSCI M180A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.11
Average grade awarded in PSYCH M117A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
39%
of the 77 letter grades
D, F or W
2.6%
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: 77 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 2.61 to 3.62.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 3 · 3.9%
- A 18 · 23.4%
- A- 9 · 11.7%
- B+ 9 · 11.7%
- B 16 · 20.8%
- B- 4 · 5.2%
- C+ 6 · 7.8%
- C 6 · 7.8%
- C- 4 · 5.2%
- D+ 1 · 1.3%
- F 1 · 1.3%
Percentages are of the 77 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHANDLER, SCOTT H reviews ↗ | 3.12 | 3.11 | 77 | 5 | 39% | - | not teaching it |
| WHITE, STEPHANIE ANN reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 49 | 3 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
| PIRI, NATIK reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 49 | 3 | 43% | - | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before PSYCH M117A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for PSYCH M117A in Summer Session C 2026 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.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology M175A, Neuroscience M101A, and Physiological Science M180A.) 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 Summer Session C 2026
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