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Dibs Fall 2026

CHEM 3

Material World

Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Focus on most important advances made by humans in developing new molecules and materials, and how these discoveries affect our everyday life. These include development of paints, polymers, metals, fuels, drugs, energetic materials, radioactive substances, poisons, and many more. Connections are made between interplay of science, history, arts, and socio-economic factors driving technological development. Laboratory sections focus on small-scale experiments relevant to everyday life and complimentary to lecture topics. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.79
n = 113 · 2 terms · ± 0.049
A range
87%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
38 of 96
40% full
 seats likely TR 2:00pm-3:20pm Spokoyny, A.M.
3.82n=113 · this instructor

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.

  • 5021F
  • 6622F
Enrolment by term: 21F 50, 22F 66
Peak 66 Most recent 66 in 22F 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 8 · 6.9%
  • A 73 · 62.9%
  • A- 17 · 14.7%
  • B+ 7 · 6.0%
  • B 6 · 5.2%
  • B- 1 · 0.9%
  • C- 1 · 0.9%
  • P 3 · 2.6%

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
SPOKOYNY, ALEXANDER MICHAEL 3.82 3.83 113 2 87%

“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