EPS SCI C179
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Theory and Applications
Grades
3.68
Average grade awarded in EPS SCI C179. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 62 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 62 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.54 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 16 · 25.8%
- A 20 · 32.3%
- A- 9 · 14.5%
- B+ 9 · 14.5%
- B 7 · 11.3%
- F 1 · 1.6%
- P 2 of 64
Percentages are of the 62 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARGOT, JEAN-LUC reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.68 | 62 | 4 | 73% | - | 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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In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Recommended: course 71 or Computer Science 31 or Program in Computing 10A, Mathematics 31B, Physics 1C or 5C. Project-based study with focus on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), with material from astronomy, computer science, mathematics, signal processing, and statistics. Design of observational program, acquisition of telescopic data, development of algorithms to analyze data, and presentation of results. Introduction to the abundance and characteristics of extrasolar planetary systems; radio astronomy, including wave propagation and Doppler shift; signal processing, including sampling theory and Fourier transforms; random processes, including Gaussian and binomial statistics; and algorithm development. Concurrently scheduled with course C279. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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