General Chemistry for Life Scientists I--Enhanced

Grades

3.18

Average grade awarded in CHEM 14AE. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.020.

The registrar's own records: 991 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. No summer session is in that record. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.07 to 3.25.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for CHEM 14AE ↗

What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 14AE, 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 Winters

Ran in 1 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably.

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, two hours. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Life Sciences 30A or Mathematics 3A or 31A or score of 48 or better on Mathematics Diagnostic Test. Not open to students with credit for course 14A or 20A. Study of foundations of chemistry. Discussion of foundations of quantum mechanics and how these principles can be used to understand atomic and molecular structure and properties; how molecules interact; and properties of inorganic, organic, and biological acids, bases, and salts. Biological, environmental, and socially-relevant examples are used to illustrate central role that chemistry plays in our world. Emphasis on developing problem-solving skills and collaborative interaction and learning. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Winter 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 27 Aug 03:05: the oldest of these 9 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

• Lec 1 MWF 11:00am-11:50am

  Closed

  Deweese, D.

  3.16

  this instructor · 619 grades

  225 of 225 · 2 over enrolled - i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  not checked yet

  7 discussions, 3 open: Dis 1A, T 10:00am-11:50am, Dis 1F, R 12:00pm-1:50pm, and Dis 1G, F 12:00pm-1:50pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 3 open discussions cannot be reached from here. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (8)

  • Dis 1A

    T 10:00am-11:50am · Center for the Health Sciences 12077Q

    Open

    1 seat left.

    29 of 30 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    T 12:00pm-1:50pm · Center for the Health Sciences 12077Q

    Closed

    30 of 30 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    T 2:00pm-3:50pm · Center for the Health Sciences 12077Q

    Closed

    30 of 30 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    R 10:00am-11:50am · Center for the Health Sciences 12077Q

    Closed

    30 of 30 enrolled

  • Dis 1E

    R 10:00am-11:50am · Center for the Health Sciences

    Cancelled

    no enrollment count published

  • Dis 1F

    R 12:00pm-1:50pm · Center for the Health Sciences 12077Q

    Open

    1 seat left.

    29 of 30 enrolled

  • Dis 1G

    F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Boelter Hall 8437

    Open

    1 seat left.

    44 of 45 enrolled

  • Dis 1I

    F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Young Hall 1044

    Closed

    30 of 30 · 5 over enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 144 and 318 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 302 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Winter 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.