EPS SCI 17
Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
Lecture and lab. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 12 discussions. 1 lecture and 6 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 13 hours ago.
Grades
3.83
Average grade awarded in EPS SCI 17. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 1,132 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
89% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,132 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.27 to 3.87.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 309 · 27.3%
- A 579 · 51.1%
- A- 122 · 10.8%
- B+ 39 · 3.4%
- B 35 · 3.1%
- B- 20 · 1.8%
- C+ 9 · 0.8%
- C 8 · 0.7%
- C- 4 · 0.4%
- D 2 · 0.2%
- F 5 · 0.4%
- P 40 of 1,179
- NP 5 of 1,179
- S 1 of 1,179
- I 1 of 1,179
Percentages are of the 1,132 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JARAMILLO HERNANDEZ, VALERIA GUADALUPE reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.86 | 677 | 2 | 92% | very light | not teaching it |
| BROWN, CAITLIN ANNA-CORBETT reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.81 | 408 | 1 | 86% | very light | not teaching it |
| LUCARELLI, JAMIE KAAREN reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.68 | 35 | 1 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| TREUDE, TINA IRENE reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.27 | 12 · | 1 | 42% | - | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 44 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall 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; laboratory, two hours; one optional field trip. Designed for nonmajors. Exploration of biology, evolution, and extinction of dinosaurs and close relatives, in context of history of biosphere. Information from paleontology, biology, and geology. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 13 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open36 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 260 of 296 enrolled
Instructor
Fitz-Gibbon, S.T.
3.83Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 1,132 letter gradesSeat risk
high risk12 discussions, 6 open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 12 discussions
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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Open
2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Closed
25 of 25 enrolled
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25 of 25 enrolled
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Open
7 seats left.
18 of 25 enrolled
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2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Open
11 seats left.
14 of 25 enrolled
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Open
6 seats left.
18 of 24 enrolled
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Closed
24 of 24 enrolled
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Open
8 seats left.
16 of 24 enrolled
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Closed
24 of 24 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 288 and 431 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 288 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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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 · Fitz-Gibbon, S.T. · 260 of 296 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 13 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 1.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.