Biological Interactions with Materials
Covers biological systems, materials, evaluation techniques, and medical applications of biomaterials.
Summary
Historical reviews of Randolph Ashton: Students report heavy workloads including 50-page reading assignments per lecture and three exams that constitute the majority of the final grade.
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Prerequisites
Course map(ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY 101 and 102,ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151,ZOOLOGY 153, or BIOCORE 383) and (CHEM 341 or 343), or graduate/professional standing
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Professors
Fall 2026No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Randolph Ashton: Randolph Ashton teaches BME 430 with dense, information-heavy slides and extensive reading assignments. Reviewers criticize his lectures as dry and fast-paced, noting that exams cover all slide content. While one student found him passionate, others reported poor explanation of background concepts and high difficulty.
RANDOLPH ASHTON is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, 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
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Randolph Ashton describe a difficult course with dense readings and exams that dominate the grade, though one reviewer notes his passion for biomaterials.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.33 GPA, 58.7% A/AB (n=126 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.27 GPA, 54.1% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 50.4% A/AB (n=137 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Randolph Ashton: Students report heavy workloads including 50-page reading assignments per lecture and three exams that constitute the majority of the final grade.
Historical reviews of Randolph Ashton: Reviewers criticize the dry lectures and lack of background explanation, while one student found the instructor nice but noted the fast pace and dense slides.
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Grades
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]Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
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Model & dataset provenance
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