CHEM 278
Inorganic Chemistry Student Seminar
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in CHEM 278. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 356 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 356 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.73 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 3 · 0.8%
- A 310 · 87.1%
- A- 24 · 6.7%
- B+ 9 · 2.5%
- B 6 · 1.7%
- C+ 1 · 0.3%
- C 1 · 0.3%
- F 2 · 0.6%
- P 1 of 760
- S 396 of 760
- U 6 of 760
- NR 1 of 760
Percentages are of the 356 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), and no report (NR).
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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVA, MATTHEW J reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.88 | 129 | 4 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| LIU, CHONG reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 117 | 4 | 92% | - | not teaching it |
| DIACONESCU, PAULA LOREDANA reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.97 | 70 | 3 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| DUAN, XIANGFENG reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 4.00 | 21 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| SPOKOYNY, ALEXANDER MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 4.00 | 19 · | 1 | 100% | - | 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.
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In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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
Seminar, two hours. Seminars presented by staff, outside speakers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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