PSYCH 118
Comparative Psychobiology
Lecture. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 71 minutes ago.
Grades
3.47
Average grade awarded in PSYCH 118. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
61%
of the 1,417 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
11 of 14 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,417 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 3.08 to 3.82.
Historical grades for BLAISDELL, AARON PAUL, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 53 · 7.3%
- A 180 · 24.8%
- A- 142 · 19.5%
- B+ 123 · 16.9%
- B 92 · 12.7%
- B- 52 · 7.2%
- C+ 28 · 3.9%
- C 30 · 4.1%
- C- 12 · 1.7%
- D+ 4 · 0.6%
- D 6 · 0.8%
- D- 4 · 0.6%
- F 1 · 0.1%
- P 9 of 739
- NP 3 of 739
Percentages are of the 727 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISDELL, AARON PAUL reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 3.35 | 727 | 7 | 52% | average | Waitlist, 0 of 20 places taken |
| TROTT, JEREMY MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.63 | 367 | 3 | 71% | very light | not teaching it |
| WONG, JARED reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.65 | 266 | 2 | 72% | very light | not teaching it |
| COX, CATHLEEN reviews ↗ | 3.20 | 3.12 | 57 | 2 | 53% | very heavy | 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
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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
Requisite: course 115. Designed for junior/senior majors. Survey of determinants of species-specific behavior, including genetic influences and learning.
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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Lec 1 TR 11:00am-12:15pmWaitlist
Blaisdell, A.P. and Ozimac, K.M.
3.36predicted, this instructor · 727 grades0 of 20 places taken. 120 of 120 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 102 and 147 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 120 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 PSYCH 118 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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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.
Lec 1 · Blaisdell, A.P. and Ozimac, K.M. · 120 of 120 enrolled
Same seat count, but the status went closed to waitlist, the waitlist went 20 of 20 to 0 of 20, and the seat count moved and came back over about 1 month
How readings and alerts work
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