A&O SCI 123
Climate Adaptation Solutions
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in A&O SCI 123. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
91%
of the 45 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 45 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 3.78 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 8 · 17.8%
- A 29 · 64.4%
- A- 4 · 8.9%
- B+ 1 · 2.2%
- B 2 · 4.4%
- B- 1 · 2.2%
- P 1 of 46
Percentages are of the 45 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, ALEXANDER DEAN reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.96 | 26 | 2 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
| BASS, BENJAMIN reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.78 | 19 · | 1 | 84% | - | 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.
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In Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably.
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. Recommended requisites: courses 1, 51, Environment 10. Development of fundamental understanding of climate change adaptation challenges facing humanity. Such challenges stem from changes in physical climate system, such as warming and increases in heat extremes, loss of snow and ice, sea level rise, increases in extreme precipitation, deepening drought, increases in wildfire, deteriorating air quality, changes in ocean circulation, and ocean acidification. Examination of all these challenges, as well as associated stresses on human and natural systems. Examination of these issues from local, regional, and global perspectives, emphasizing intersections with other deep sustainability challenges. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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