GEOG 5
People and Earth's Ecosystems
Grades
3.68
Average grade awarded in GEOG 5. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 2,862 letter grades
D, F or W
1.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
97% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,862 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 3.04 to 3.95.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 548 · 19.1%
- A 1,232 · 43.0%
- A- 426 · 14.9%
- B+ 213 · 7.4%
- B 211 · 7.4%
- B- 87 · 3.0%
- C+ 50 · 1.7%
- C 50 · 1.7%
- C- 13 · 0.5%
- D+ 4 · 0.1%
- D 9 · 0.3%
- D- 2 · 0.1%
- F 17 · 0.6%
- P 139 of 3,016
- NP 4 of 3,016
- I 11 of 3,016
Percentages are of the 2,862 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GILLESPIE, THOMAS WELCH reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.78 | 1,384 | 7 | 84% | very light | not teaching it |
| CAVANAUGH, KYLE C reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 911 | 5 | 77% | light | not teaching it |
| ILLES, LILIA I reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.38 | 428 | 3 | 56% | light | not teaching it |
| STIEKMAN, CHELSEA M reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.71 | 139 | 1 | 80% | - | 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 162 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
In Winters
Ran in 4 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, two hours. Exploration of ways in which human activity impacts natural environment and how modification of environment can eventually have significant consequences for human activity. Examination, using case studies, of real environmental problems that confront us today. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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