EPS SCI 13
Natural Disasters
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; one field day. Global urbanization together with historical demographic population shift to coastal areas, especially around Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, are placing increasingly large parts of this planet's human population at risk due to earthquakes, volcanos, and tsunamis. Global climate change combines with variety of geologic processes to create enhanced risks from catastrophic mass movements (e.g., landslides), hurricanes, floods, and fires. Exploration of physical processes behind natural disasters and discussion of how these natural events affect quality of human life. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.33
- n = 647 · 3 terms · ± 0.021
- A range
- 56%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 7%
- 88% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 3.2%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections 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.
- 24222S
- 23223S
- 22624S
Grade distribution
- A+ 61 · 8.7%
- A 198 · 28.2%
- A- 102 · 14.6%
- B+ 68 · 9.7%
- B 67 · 9.6%
- B- 45 · 6.4%
- C+ 34 · 4.9%
- C 33 · 4.7%
- C- 19 · 2.7%
- D+ 6 · 0.9%
- D 4 · 0.6%
- D- 4 · 0.6%
- F 6 · 0.9%
- P 46 · 6.6%
- NP 6 · 0.9%
- I 1 · 0.1%
- DR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOON, SEUL GI | 3.07 | 3.06 | 425 | 2 | 39% |
| LITHGOW-BERTELLONI, CAROLINA R | 3.80 | 3.83 | 222 | 1 | 88% |
“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
- 22S 3.83 n=222
- 23S 3.04 n=216
- 24S 3.08 n=209