Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.56 GPA, 79.1% A/AB (n=268 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.57 GPA, 80.6% A/AB (n=237 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.47 GPA, 73.5% A/AB (n=166 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Natural Hazards and Disasters
NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS explores the science behind major natural disasters and addresses hazard assessment, forecasting, and mitigation.
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Historical reviews of Shaun Marcott, Teri Boundy: Workload consists of quizzes, exercises, and homework, with some instructors requiring careful textbook reading and office hour attendance that impacts grades.
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Shaun Marcott: Shaun Marcott is praised for his passion, engagement, and clear lectures, making the course rewarding for non-science majors. One reviewer criticized co-instructor Brad Singer as boring, though Marcott was noted for making material interesting.
BRADLEY S. SINGER is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
SHAUN MARCOTT is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
TERI BOUNDY is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 42 / 175 | 0 |
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 49 / 175 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of Shaun Marcott: Reviewers describe the course as a rewarding, lighter science option suitable for non-majors, with engaging lectures on natural hazards.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.55 GPA, 77.9% A/AB (n=154 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.47 GPA, 73.5% A/AB (n=166 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Shaun Marcott, Teri Boundy: Workload consists of quizzes, exercises, and homework, with some instructors requiring careful textbook reading and office hour attendance that impacts grades.
Historical reviews of Shaun Marcott: Students appreciate straightforward slides and engaging teaching, though one review criticizes a co-instructor as boring.
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Fall 2026 · Projected
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About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
6 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.
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Natural Hazards and Disasters
Recorded 2026-09-07Natural Hazards and Disasters
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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