A&O SCI 103
Physical Oceanography
Grades
3.32
Average grade awarded in A&O SCI 103. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
53%
of the 284 letter grades
D, F or W
2.5%
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: 284 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.26 to 3.46.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 45 · 15.8%
- A 49 · 17.3%
- A- 56 · 19.7%
- B+ 34 · 12.0%
- B 38 · 13.4%
- B- 21 · 7.4%
- C+ 15 · 5.3%
- C 15 · 5.3%
- C- 4 · 1.4%
- D+ 3 · 1.1%
- D 2 · 0.7%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 1 · 0.4%
- P 5 of 290
- U 1 of 290
Percentages are of the 284 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and unsatisfactory (U).
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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEWART, ANDREW LESLIE reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.32 | 284 | 5 | 53% | heavy | 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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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: Mathematics 3B or 31B. Introductory course for physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering majors interested in environmental issues. Observations of temperature, salinity, density, and currents. Methods. Wind-driven and geostrophic currents. California Current and Gulf Stream. Internal waves. Surface waves and tides. Air/sea interactions. Coastal upwelling. Biological/physical interactions. El niño. Role of ocean in climate and global change. Santa Monica Bay field trip. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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