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GEOG 7

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

5 units Life Sciences Physical Sciences Social Analysis

Sections & times

Lecture and lab.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 24 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 19 minutes ago.

Grades

3.63

Average grade awarded in GEOG 7. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

77%

of the 2,186 letter grades

D, F or W

2.9%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

5%

91% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 2,186 grades over 15 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 15 terms ran 3.26 to 3.80.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 31 · 1.4%
  • A 1,366 · 62.5%
  • A- 291 · 13.3%
  • B+ 143 · 6.5%
  • B 133 · 6.1%
  • B- 69 · 3.2%
  • C+ 36 · 1.6%
  • C 39 · 1.8%
  • C- 15 · 0.7%
  • D+ 6 · 0.3%
  • D 9 · 0.4%
  • D- 3 · 0.1%
  • F 45 · 2.1%
  • P 111 of 2,326
  • NP 11 of 2,326
  • S 17 of 2,326
  • U 1 of 2,326

Percentages are of the 2,186 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), 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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
SHIN, MICHAEL EDWARD reviews ↗ 3.61 3.61 1,913 13 76% average not teaching it
BURKHART, SIERRA NICOLE reviews ↗ 3.73 3.73 273 2 83% average 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.

Reviews for GEOG 7

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.

What the work looks like

  • Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
  • Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 6 reviewers
  • Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
  • Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
  • Labs mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers

Read from 74 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

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In Falls

Ran in 4 of the last 5 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

Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Designed for freshmen/sophomores. Introduction to fundamental principles and concepts necessary to carry out sound geographic analysis with geographic information systems (GIS). Reinforcement of key issues in GIS, such as geographic coordinate systems, map projections, spatial analysis, and visualization of spatial data. Laboratory exercises use database query, manipulation, and spatial analysis to address real-world problems. 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 25 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 112 and 303 a term over 11 terms, summer excluded, most recently 303 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking GEOG 7 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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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 · Ali Ganem, K. and Gillespie, T.W. · 360 of 360 enrolled

Filled by 62 over about 2 months

360 of 360 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:161 Oct 16:00
dibs read 168 of the 174 hours its hourly record covers, 97%, and did not look in 6. dibs had no hourly record before 24 Sep, which is the other 911 of 1085 plotted.360 of 360 enrolled at the newest reading, 19 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 16:00, 298 to 360. dibs read 168 of the 174 hours its hourly record here covers, 97%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 6 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 24 September at 11:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 911 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.