EPS SCI 8
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Lecture and lab. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.28
Average grade awarded in EPS SCI 8. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
55%
of the 748 letter grades
D, F or W
5.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
81% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 748 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 2.18 to 3.58.
Historical grades for LITHGOW-BERTELLONI, CAROLINA R, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MENG, LINGSEN reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.47 | 351 | 3 | 64% | very light | not teaching it |
| BEGHEIN, CAROLINE reviews ↗ | 3.12 | 3.11 | 269 | 4 | 49% | light | not teaching it |
| PELTZER, GILLES F reviews ↗ | 3.13 | 3.11 | 128 | 1 | 47% | 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.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 90 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 5 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
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour; one optional field day. Description of causes and effects of earthquakes and volcanoes. Introduction to tectonic plate motion, faults, wave propagation, volcano formation, types of volcanoes, and volcanic eruptions. Review of earthquake and volcano hazard, societal consequences. Analysis of hazard reduction through earthquake forecasting, earthquake-resistant design, and volcano monitoring. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 11:00am-12:15pmOpen3.29predicted, all instructors · 748 grades
7 seats left. 93 of 100 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, 2 open: Lab 1A, T 1:00pm-1:50pm, and Lab 1B, F 2:00pm-2:50pm.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Lab 1A
T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Geology Building 4691
Open1 seat left.
24 of 25 enrolled
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Lab 1B
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Geology Building 4691
Open6 seats left.
19 of 25 enrolled
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Lab 1C
W 9:00am-9:50am · Geology Building 4691
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Lab 1D
W 10:00am-10:50am · Geology Building 4691
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 16 and 197 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 16 in Winter 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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.
Lec 1 · Lithgow-Bertelloni · 93 of 100 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 23.
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.