CHEM 153L
Biochemical Methods I
Lecture and lab. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 8 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
3.15
Average grade awarded in CHEM 153L. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
50%
of the 1,521 letter grades
D, F or W
8.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
5 of 13 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,521 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 2.83 to 3.32.
Historical grades for HONG-HERMESDORF, ANNE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 0.3%
- A 521 · 34.8%
- A- 231 · 15.4%
- B+ 138 · 9.2%
- B 190 · 12.7%
- B- 101 · 6.7%
- C+ 71 · 4.7%
- C 79 · 5.3%
- C- 42 · 2.8%
- D+ 9 · 0.6%
- D 68 · 4.5%
- F 44 · 2.9%
- P 4 of 1,517
- NP 8 of 1,517
- U 1 of 1,517
- I 6 of 1,517
Percentages are of the 1,498 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), unsatisfactory (U), and incompletes (I).
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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| HONG-HERMESDORF, ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.15 | 1,498 | 13 | 50% | heavy | Closed by the department |
| LANNAN, RYAN reviews ↗ | 3.13 | 3.12 | 23 | 1 | 48% | - | 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 CHEM 153L. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B and CHEM 20L, 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 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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, two hours; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 14BL or 20L and 30AL, and 153A or 153AH (may be taken concurrently), with grades of C- or better. Integrated term-long project involving biofuel production in bacteria. Purification of key enzyme for alcohol production from bacteria via affinity chromatography. Assessment of protein amount, purity, and activity of enzyme. Techniques include protein determination by Bradford assay, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting, and enzyme activity assays to determine enzyme activity (Km, Vmax, inhibitor studies). 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 9 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 11:00am-11:50amClosed by the department3.15predicted, this instructor · 1,498 grades
117 enrolled no history
8 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (8)
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Lab 1A
T 1:00pm-4:50pm · Young Hall 1049
Closed by the department16 enrolled
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Lab 1B
T 1:00pm-4:50pm · Young Hall 1067
Closed by the department16 enrolled
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Lab 1C
W 9:30am-1:20pm · Young Hall 1049
Waitlist0 of 4 places taken.
no enrollment count published
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Lab 1D
W 9:30am-1:20pm · Young Hall 1067
Closed by the department11 enrolled
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Lab 1E
W 2:00pm-5:50pm · Young Hall 1049
Closed by the department15 enrolled
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Lab 1F
W 2:00pm-5:50pm · Young Hall 1067
Closed by the department16 enrolled
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Lab 1G
R 1:00pm-4:50pm · Young Hall 1049
Closed by the department16 enrolled
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Lab 1H
R 1:00pm-4:50pm · Young Hall 1067
Closed by the department16 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 80 and 145 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 116 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking CHEM 153L 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.
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 1 · Hong-Hermesdorf, A · 117 enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 3 seats.
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.