EE BIOL 187
Variable Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 3 lectures and 3 discussions. 2 lectures and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 41 minutes ago.
Grades
3.94
Average grade awarded in EE BIOL 187. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 198 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 198 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 3.89 to 4.00.
Historical grades for BANIAGA, ANTHONY ERNEST FIORENTINO, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 90 · 75.0%
- A 19 · 15.8%
- A- 6 · 5.0%
- B+ 1 · 0.8%
- B- 3 · 2.5%
- F 1 · 0.8%
- P 1 of 121
Percentages are of the 120 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
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| BANIAGA, ANTHONY ERNEST FIORENTINO reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 120 | 2 | 96% | - | Open, 36 seats left |
| BARBER, PAUL HENRY reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 3.99 | 58 | 3 | 100% | - | Open, 1 seat left |
| ALFARO, MICHAEL EDWARD reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 20 | 1 | 95% | 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.
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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before EE BIOL 187. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 23L, 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.
In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Winter 2024.
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. Requisites: Life Sciences 1, 2, 3, 4, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, 7C, and 23L. Investigation, discussion, and study of current important issues involving substantial biological considerations in ecology and evolutionary biology. Contact Undergraduate Advising Office for current topics. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45amCancelled
No instructors
3.92predicted, all instructors · 198 gradesno enrollment count published -
not checked yet -
Lec 2 TR 9:30am-10:45amOpen3.91predicted, this instructor · 120 grades
36 seats left. 24 of 60 enrolled low risk
3 discussions, all open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 2A
W 9:00am-9:50am · Mathematical Sciences
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 2B
W 10:00am-10:50am · Geology Building 4645
Open9 seats left.
11 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 2C
W 11:00am-11:50am · Mathematical Sciences
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 2D
W 12:00pm-12:50pm · Mathematical Sciences 6201
Open13 seats left.
7 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 2E
W 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2319
Open14 seats left.
6 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 2F
W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Lec 3 Time TBAOpen
Barber, P.H. and Anghera, M.
3.98predicted, this instructor · 58 grades1 seat left. 15 of 16 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 11 and 67 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 11 in Winter 2024. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking EE BIOL 187 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. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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 2 · Baniaga, A.E. · 24 of 60 enrolled
Freed 1 seat over about 1 month
Lec 3 · Barber, P.H. and Anghera, M. · 15 of 16 enrolled
Filled by 15 over 21 days
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.