EPS SCI 8
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 140 · 18.7%
- A 179 · 23.9%
- A- 96 · 12.8%
- B+ 79 · 10.6%
- B 62 · 8.3%
- B- 55 · 7.4%
- C+ 41 · 5.5%
- C 34 · 4.5%
- C- 21 · 2.8%
- D+ 13 · 1.7%
- D 11 · 1.5%
- D- 3 · 0.4%
- F 14 · 1.9%
- P 50 of 813
- NP 12 of 813
- S 1 of 813
- I 2 of 813
Percentages are of the 748 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), and 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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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.
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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2027
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