PHYSCI 121
Disease Mechanisms and Therapies
Grades
3.85
Average grade awarded in PHYSCI 121. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 435 letter grades
D, F or W
0.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 435 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.72 to 3.91.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 166 · 38.2%
- A 196 · 45.1%
- A- 25 · 5.7%
- B+ 22 · 5.1%
- B 12 · 2.8%
- B- 1 · 0.2%
- C+ 4 · 0.9%
- C 5 · 1.1%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- F 3 · 0.7%
- DR 1 of 436
Percentages are of the 435 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HENRICKS, MICHELLE reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.90 | 218 | 2 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| CHOE, RONNY reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.82 | 114 | 2 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| CROSBIE, RACHELLE HOPE reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.76 | 103 | 1 | 80% | - | 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
dibs has not read a class page for PHYSCI 121 in any term it holds, 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, one hour. Requisites: Chemistry 153A, and Life Sciences 2, 3, and 4 or 7A, 7B, and 7C. Designed for junior/senior Biochemistry and life sciences majors. Use of disease mechanisms as pedagogical tools to develop higher-order knowledge of basic scientific concepts. Integration of concepts from genetics, molecular and cell biology, physiology, and biochemistry to create molecular solutions to problem of inherited neuromuscular disease. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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