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MCD BIO 90

Human Stem Cells and Medicine

Lecture, three and one half hours; discussion 90 minutes. Stem cells have potential to revolutionize way medicine is practiced today. Some stem cell therapies are already used successfully to treat thousands of people worldwide. Other stem cell therapies are considered experimental; therefore treatments must be monitored by Food and Drug Administration to ensure safety and efficacy. Some stem cell therapies are offered with minimal scientific justification, relying on hope and hype rather than scientific fact. Exploration of use of stem cells in modern medicine to take close look at science behind some of today's most famous and infamous stem cell medical applications. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.88
n = 151 · 5 terms · ± 0.043
A range
92%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 1721F
  • 3322W
  • 3423W
  • 3623F
  • 3824W
Enrolment by term: 21F 17, 22W 33, 23W 34, 23F 36, 24W 38
Peak 38 Most recent 38 in 24W 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 47 · 29.7%
  • A 77 · 48.7%
  • A- 15 · 9.5%
  • B+ 6 · 3.8%
  • B 2 · 1.3%
  • B- 3 · 1.9%
  • C+ 1 · 0.6%
  • P 7 · 4.4%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
AUSTIN, TINA ROSA 3.89 3.89 151 5 92%

“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.

By term