PHYSCI 110
How Cancer Co-Opts Normal Physiology
Grades
3.94
Average grade awarded in PHYSCI 110. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 91 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
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: 91 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.92 to 3.99.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 47 · 51.6%
- A 31 · 34.1%
- A- 11 · 12.1%
- B 1 · 1.1%
- B- 1 · 1.1%
Percentages are of the 91 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAN VEEN, JOHN EDWARD reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 91 | 3 | 98% | very 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.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before PHYSCI 110. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for PHYSCI 110 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for PHYSCI 111A and PHYSCI 111B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
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. Requisites: courses 111A, 111B. Students gain understanding of how cancer-causing mutations co-opt normal physiological processes to promote disease progression. Covers homeostatic challenges induced by cancer and cancer therapies. Heavy focus on how animal models are designed and used to study human cancer. Topics include genetic engineering and preclinical analysis of transgenic mouse models of lung cancer, melanoma, and breast cancer. Classes are mixture of lecture and discussion focused on relevant classical and current literature. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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