ENVIRON C159
Life-Cycle Assessment
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 all professors, 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAJAGOPAL, DEEPAK reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.43 | 118 | 3 | 57% | light | 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.
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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. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENVIRON C159 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. 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 Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 3 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. 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 Winter 2026
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