A&O SCI 1L
Climate Change: From Puzzles to Policy--Laboratory
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in A&O SCI 1L. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
81%
of the 286 letter grades
D, F or W
3.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
11 of 12 students passed
The registrar's own records: 286 grades over 9 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 9 terms ran 3.49 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 108 · 37.8%
- A 97 · 33.9%
- A- 28 · 9.8%
- B+ 14 · 4.9%
- B 15 · 5.2%
- B- 1 · 0.3%
- C+ 5 · 1.7%
- C 4 · 1.4%
- C- 4 · 1.4%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- F 9 · 3.1%
- P 11 of 298
- NP 1 of 298
Percentages are of the 286 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEIBT, ULRIKE reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 147 | 2 | 80% | very light | not teaching it |
| BAIJNATH-RODINO, JANINE ANN reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.61 | 45 | 2 | 76% | - | not teaching it |
| FU, RONG reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.69 | 41 | 2 | 88% | - | not teaching it |
| BIANCHI, DANIELE reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.64 | 32 | 2 | 81% | heavy | not teaching it |
| PAULSON, SUZANNE E reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.88 | 21 | 1 | 90% | - | 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
- 2 exams, said by 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 4 labs, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 28 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
Laboratory, one hour. Enforced corequisite: course 1. Investigations and demonstrations supporting material in course 1, including greenhouse effect, atmosphere and ocean circulation, past, present, and future climates, and role of science in climate change politics. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
From the people who took it
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