ENVIRON C159
Life-Cycle Assessment
Lecture.
Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 64 minutes ago.
Grades
3.43
Average grade awarded in ENVIRON C159. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
57%
of the 118 letter grades
D, F or W
2.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
9%
10 of 12 students passed
The registrar's own records: 118 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.33 to 3.53.
Historical grades for RAJAGOPAL, DEEPAK, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 36 · 30.5%
- A- 31 · 26.3%
- B+ 25 · 21.2%
- B 11 · 9.3%
- B- 6 · 5.1%
- C+ 3 · 2.5%
- C 3 · 2.5%
- D 1 · 0.8%
- D- 1 · 0.8%
- F 1 · 0.8%
- P 10 of 131
- NP 2 of 131
- I 1 of 131
Percentages are of the 118 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAJAGOPAL, DEEPAK reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.43 | 118 | 3 | 57% | light | Open, 77 seats left |
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.
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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 ENVIRON C159. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30B and MATH 3B, 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
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A and 30B, or Mathematics 3A and 3B (or 31A and 31B). Public discourse about current patterns of production and consumption of energy, and goods and services more broadly, suggest such patterns are environmentally and economically unsustainable. Introduction to basic concept of life-cycle assessment (LCA), including analytical frameworks and quantitative techniques for systematically and holistically evaluating environmental trade-offs presented by different alternatives. Focus on methodology of LCA to compute various material inputs and environmental releases from all activities associated with life cycle (i.e., raw material extraction, processing, end use, and disposal) of products or services. Discussion of strengths and limitations of LCA as tool for decision making. Students perform life-cycle analysis of one technology, product, or service of their choice. Concurrently scheduled with course C259. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 11:00am-12:15pmOpen3.44predicted, this instructor · 118 grades
77 seats left. 23 of 100 enrolled low risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 24 and 55 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 24 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ENVIRON C159 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 · Rajagopal, D. · 23 of 100 enrolled
Same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back over about 1 month
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.