A&O SCI M7
Perils of Space: Introduction to Space Weather
Also listed as EPS SCI M7: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.84
Average grade awarded in A&O SCI M7. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
86%
of the 118 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
4 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 118 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 3.69 to 3.91.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 51 · 43.2%
- A 37 · 31.4%
- A- 14 · 11.9%
- B+ 7 · 5.9%
- B 7 · 5.9%
- B- 1 · 0.8%
- C+ 1 · 0.8%
- P 4 of 122
Percentages are of the 118 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAO, HAO reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.91 | 70 | 2 | 93% | very light | not teaching it |
| VARNEY, ROGER HALE reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.74 | 48 | 2 | 77% | - | 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.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of about 1 month ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 3 Falls.
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
(Same as Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences M7.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Concepts of plasma physics. Dynamic sun, solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Space storms and substorms and their impacts on astronauts, spacecraft, and surface power and communication grids. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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