PHYSCI 148
Physiological Regulation of Metabolism and Nutrient Sensing
Grades
3.77
Average grade awarded in PHYSCI 148. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 165 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 165 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 3.56 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 37 · 22.4%
- A 78 · 47.3%
- A- 20 · 12.1%
- B+ 17 · 10.3%
- B 4 · 2.4%
- B- 4 · 2.4%
- C+ 1 · 0.6%
- C 3 · 1.8%
- D 1 · 0.6%
- I 2 of 167
Percentages are of the 165 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VILLANUEVA, CLAUDIO JAVIER reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.77 | 165 | 4 | 82% | 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.
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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 1 reviewer
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 27 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before PHYSCI 148. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for PHYSCI 148 in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for PHYSCI 111B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 3 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2022. That is 3 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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 and one half hours; discussion, two hours. Requisite: course 111B. Study of energy metabolism and processing of macronutrients like carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins in mammals. Students gain tools and knowledge for synthesizing new information from advances in nutrition research to add to basic understanding of macronutrient metabolism. Use of clinical case studies to understand how human mutations in metabolic pathways lead to metabolic disorders. Discussion of diabetes, atherosclerosis, glycogen storage disease, inborn errors of metabolism, mitochondrial disorders, and lysosomal storage diseases. Study of how cells sense nutrients and adapt metabolism to unique needs of cells—for example, how cells respond to excess cholesterol. Discussion of mechanisms involved in import, export, and synthesis of nutrients. Use of primary literature to analyze primary research related to topics covered in lectures. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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