CHEM 249A
Methods of Materials Chemistry: Synthesis, Characterization, Physical Properties, Applications, and Devices
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 2 records over 8 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- P 2 of 161
- S 159 of 161
Counts are out of 161 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARAM, JUSTIN RYAN reviews ↗ | S/U | 13 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| MASON, THOMAS G reviews ↗ | S/U | 26 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| BOUCHARD, LOUIS-SERGE reviews ↗ | S/U | 22 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| DUAN, XIANGFENG reviews ↗ | P/NP | 1 P/NP | 3 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| SCHWARTZ, BENJAMIN JOEL reviews ↗ | S/U | 29 S/U | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| KAVNER, ABBY reviews ↗ | P/NP | 1 P/NP | 1 | - | - | 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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 249A in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. 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
Seminar, two hours. Designed for first-year graduate students to teach advanced problem-solving skills and critical thinking, with focus on problems and recent literature pertaining to materials chemistry. How materials are synthesized and characterized. Discussion of important physical properties, as well as broad range of applications and behavior in devices. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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