EPS SCI 13
Natural Disasters
Grades
3.33
Average grade awarded in EPS SCI 13. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
56%
of the 647 letter grades
D, F or W
3.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
7%
88% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 647 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 3.04 to 3.83.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 61 · 9.4%
- A 198 · 30.6%
- A- 102 · 15.8%
- B+ 68 · 10.5%
- B 67 · 10.4%
- B- 45 · 7.0%
- C+ 34 · 5.3%
- C 33 · 5.1%
- C- 19 · 2.9%
- D+ 6 · 0.9%
- D 4 · 0.6%
- D- 4 · 0.6%
- F 6 · 0.9%
- P 46 of 701
- NP 6 of 701
- I 1 of 701
- DR 1 of 701
Percentages are of the 647 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOON, SEUL GI reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.06 | 425 | 2 | 39% | very light | not teaching it |
| LITHGOW-BERTELLONI, CAROLINA R reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.83 | 222 | 1 | 88% | very 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.
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What comes first
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Springs. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Spring 2024.
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; 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.
Sections in Spring 2026
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