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CLUSTER 70CW

Evolution of Cosmos and Life: Special Topics in Life and Physical Sciences

Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 70B. Limited to first-year freshmen. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 70DW. Examination in depth of various issues of evolution in cosmos from life sciences perspective. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.89
n = 901 · 4 terms · ± 0.018
A range
92%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.2%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

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.

  • 2022S
  • 2023S
  • 2024S
  • 2025S
Enrolment by term: 22S 20, 23S 20, 24S 20, 25S 20
Peak 20 Most recent 20 in 25S 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 397 · 44.0%
  • A 377 · 41.8%
  • A- 56 · 6.2%
  • B+ 34 · 3.8%
  • B 20 · 2.2%
  • B- 2 · 0.2%
  • C+ 3 · 0.3%
  • C 9 · 1.0%
  • C- 1 · 0.1%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • F 1 · 0.1%
  • P 1 · 0.1%

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
FRISCIA, ANTHONY RAYMOND 3.89 3.89 880 4 92%
ROBIN, AMANDA NICOLE 3.95 3.99 21 1 100%

“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