EPS SCI 152
Physics of Earth
Grades
2.74
Average grade awarded in EPS SCI 152. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
33%
of the 12 letter grades
D, F or W
16.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
0 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 12 grades over 1 term, 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 8.3%
- A 2 · 16.7%
- A- 1 · 8.3%
- B+ 3 · 25.0%
- C+ 1 · 8.3%
- C 2 · 16.7%
- D 1 · 8.3%
- F 1 · 8.3%
- NP 1 of 13
Percentages are of the 12 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: no-passes (NP).
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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGHEIN, CAROLINE reviews ↗ | 2.98 | 2.74 | 12 · | 1 | 33% | 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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before EPS SCI 152. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for EPS SCI 152 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 3B, PHYSICS 1BH, and PHYSICS 1CH, 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.
In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 3 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2023.
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; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Mathematics 33A, Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH). Recommended: course 1 or 8. Crust-to-core tour of Earth and physics used to explore it. Isostasy, plate tectonics, mantle convection, and geodynamo as discovered with tools of elasticity, seismology, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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