CS 236: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
University of California, Riverside
4 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): CS 141; CS 166 recommended; graduate standing; or consent of instructor. Covers principles of file systems; architecture of database management systems; data models; and relational databases. Also examines logical and physical design of databases; hardware and software implementation of database systems; and distributed databases (e.g., query processing, concurrences, and recovery). May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.
Average GPA: 3.40
Grade distribution records: 554 students across 11 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 83 | 15.0% |
| A | 133 | 24.0% |
| A- | 90 | 16.2% |
| B+ | 68 | 12.3% |
| B | 62 | 11.2% |
| B- | 47 | 8.5% |
| C+ | 21 | 3.8% |
| C | 24 | 4.3% |
| C- | 6 | 1.1% |
| D+ | 4 | 0.7% |
| D | 3 | 0.5% |
| D- | 1 | 0.2% |
| F | 2 | 0.4% |
| NP | 4 | 0.7% |
| S | 6 | 1.1% |
Based on 554 student grade records across 11 terms and 4 professors.
Instructors
- Vassilis Tsotras 315 students, Average GPA 3.23
- Mariam Salloum 118 students, Average GPA 3.76
- Chinya Ravishankar 66 students, Average GPA 3.16
- Amr Ahmed 55 students, Average GPA 3.87