EPS SCI 15
Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for or currently enrolled in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 25. General introduction to geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and history of Earth's global ocean system. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.47
- n = 2,157 · 11 terms · ± 0.012
- A range
- 62%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 6%
- 89% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 2.3%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 30722W
- 17322S
- 22422F
- 32023W
- 24823F
- 35824W
- 24325W
- 35725S
Grade distribution
- A+ 562 · 24.5%
- A 455 · 19.8%
- A- 328 · 14.3%
- B+ 274 · 11.9%
- B 174 · 7.6%
- B- 145 · 6.3%
- C+ 71 · 3.1%
- C 69 · 3.0%
- C- 30 · 1.3%
- D+ 15 · 0.7%
- D 13 · 0.6%
- D- 2 · 0.1%
- F 19 · 0.8%
- P 116 · 5.1%
- NP 15 · 0.7%
- I 8 · 0.3%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TREUDE, TINA IRENE | 3.67 | 3.67 | 1,281 | 4 | 74% |
| SCHAUBLE, EDWIN ARTHUR | 3.15 | 3.15 | 814 | 4 | 44% |
| DRAKE, JEANA | 3.55 | 3.56 | 62 | 3 | 71% |
“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.
By term
- 22W 3.73 n=298
- 22S 3.15 n=150
- 221 3.31 n=17
- 22F 3.18 n=208
- 23W 3.27 n=277
- 231 3.67 n=25
- 23F 3.19 n=229
- 24W 3.93 n=355
- 241 3.66 n=20
- 25W 3.07 n=227
- 25S 3.67 n=351