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PSYCH 196B

Research Apprenticeship in Cognitive Science

3 units

Sections & times

Tutorial.

Fall 2026: 15 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.

Grades

Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.

Graded P/NP: 139 records over 8 terms.

In the A range

-

no letter grades in the record to count

D, F or W

-

no letter grades in the record to count

Taken pass/no pass

100%

100% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 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.

Historical grades for HO, TIFFANY C, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
CHEN, XIANG reviews ↗ P/NP 11 P/NP 1 - - not teaching it
LIU, ZILI reviews ↗ P/NP 118 P/NP 8 - - Closed by the department
LU, HONGJING reviews ↗ P/NP 10 P/NP 1 - - Closed by the department
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.

Reviews for PSYCH 196B

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.

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In Falls

Ran in 2 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

Tutorial, eight hours. Corequisite: course 194C. Limited to junior/senior Cognitive Science majors. Practical applications of cognitive science through research under guidance of faculty mentor. Only 12 units from any combination of courses 185, 192, 194, 195, and 196 may be applied toward undergraduate degree. May be applied toward course requirements for Cognitive Science major. Individual contract required. Information and contracts may be obtained from Undergraduate Advising Office, 1531 Franz Hall. P/NP grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 15 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 22 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 11 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking PSYCH 196B was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 15 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

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.

Tut 1 · Caruso, E.M. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 1 seat.

18 Aug 18:419 Sep 18:171 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record covers, 33%, and did not look in 346. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 542 of 1056 plotted.Seats from 18 Aug 18:41 to 1 Oct 17:53, 1 to 1. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record here covers, 33%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 346 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 08:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 542 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 2 · Liu, Z. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.

18 Aug 18:419 Sep 18:171 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record covers, 33%, and did not look in 346. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 542 of 1056 plotted.Seats from 18 Aug 18:41 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record here covers, 33%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 346 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 08:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 542 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 3 · Thames, A.D. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.

1 Sep 01:4016 Sep 09:461 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record covers, 33%, and did not look in 346. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 223 of 737 plotted.Seats from 1 Sep 01:40 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record here covers, 33%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 346 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 08:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 223 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 4 · Shams, L. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 27 days before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

5 Sep 02:4018 Sep 10:161 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record covers, 33%, and did not look in 346. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 126 of 640 plotted.Seats from 5 Sep 02:40 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 514 hours its hourly record here covers, 33%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 346 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 08:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 126 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 5 · Lu, H. · 3 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 16 days before that, filled by 3.

15 Sep 11:3223 Sep 14:421 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 121 of the 391 hours plotted, 31%, and did not look in 270.Seats from 15 Sep 11:32 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 3. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 270 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 6 · Craske, M. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 10 days before that, filled by 1.

0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.

21 Sep 22:1226 Sep 20:021 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 70 of the 236 hours plotted, 30%, and did not look in 166.Seats from 21 Sep 22:12 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. The line joins two or three readings, which is too few to read a trend from. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 166 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 7 · Sandhofer, C.M. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 10 days before that, filled by 1.

0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.

21 Sep 22:1226 Sep 20:021 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 70 of the 236 hours plotted, 30%, and did not look in 166.Seats from 21 Sep 22:12 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. The line joins two or three readings, which is too few to read a trend from. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 166 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 8 · Ho, T.C. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 10 days before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

21 Sep 22:1226 Sep 20:021 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 70 of the 236 hours plotted, 30%, and did not look in 166.Seats from 21 Sep 22:12 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 166 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 9 · Bickart, K.C. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 6 days before that, same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back.

25 Sep 19:4228 Sep 18:471 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 42 of the 143 hours plotted, 29%, and did not look in 101.Seats from 25 Sep 19:42 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 0. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 101 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 10 · Kamper, D.G. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 6 days before that, filled by 1.

26 Sep 02:3228 Sep 22:121 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 41 of the 136 hours plotted, 30%, and did not look in 95.Seats from 26 Sep 02:32 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 95 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 11 · Gebremichael, M. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 3 days before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

28 Sep 12:4230 Sep 03:171 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 24 of the 78 hours plotted, 31%, and did not look in 54.Seats from 28 Sep 12:42 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 54 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 12 · Krajbich, I.M. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 3 days before that, filled by 1.

0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.

29 Sep 02:4230 Sep 10:171 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 20 of the 64 hours plotted, 31%, and did not look in 44.Seats from 29 Sep 02:42 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. The line joins two or three readings, which is too few to read a trend from. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 44 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 13 · Lieberman, M.D. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 1 day before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

30 Sep 10:221 Oct 02:071 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 10 of the 32 hours plotted, 31%, and did not look in 22.Seats from 30 Sep 10:22 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 22 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 14 · Paquette-Smith, M. · 1 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 1 day before that, filled by 1.

0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.

30 Sep 13:521 Oct 03:521 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 8 of the 29 hours plotted, 28%, and did not look in 21.Seats from 30 Sep 13:52 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 1. The line joins two or three readings, which is too few to read a trend from. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 21 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Tut 15 · Harris, J.A. · -

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 16 hours before that, unchanged.

Both readings say 0 seats.

1 Oct 02:221 Oct 10:071 Oct 17:53 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 6 of the 16 hours plotted, 38%, and did not look in 10.Seats from 1 Oct 02:22 to 1 Oct 17:53, 0 to 0. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 10 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

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.