BMD RES 5HB
Biomedical Research: Essential Skills and Concepts
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in BMD RES 5HB. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 428 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 428 grades over 13 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 13 terms ran 3.72 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 156 · 36.4%
- A 181 · 42.3%
- A- 71 · 16.6%
- B+ 16 · 3.7%
- B 2 · 0.5%
- B- 2 · 0.5%
- P 1 of 432
- I 3 of 432
Percentages are of the 428 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, TINA ROSA reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 285 | 9 | 94% | light | not teaching it |
| CLARK, IRA E reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.95 | 238 | 7 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| TURLO, KIRSTEN ANN reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 3.98 | 103 | 3 | 98% | light | not teaching it |
| LOUGH-STEVENS, MICHAEL J reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 4.00 | 40 | 1 | 100% | - | 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 Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 5HA. Designed for freshmen/sophomores. Exploration of scientific concepts and experimental approaches through seminars by UCLA faculty members on their cutting-edge research. Topics may include areas of study such as cancer, stem cells, and infectious disease, as well as more basic research in cell and molecular biology. Student investigation of one or more laboratories on campus and presentation of brief synopsis of single research project from one laboratory. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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