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Dibs Fall 2026

MCD BIO 60

Biomedical Ethics

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of importance of ethics in research and exploration of how and why bioethics is relevant to reproductive screening, policy formation, public regulation, and law. Provides foundation in traditional ethics, consideration of subcategories of bioethics, neuroethics, and eugenics, and how to apply ethics to contemporary issues in research and technology. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.87
n = 1,130 · 10 terms · ± 0.016
A range
90%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.2%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Closed
95 of 95
100% full
 fills TR 5:00pm-6:15pm Tulipana, P.A.
3.91n=715 · this instructor

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.

  • 11421F
  • 17222S
  • 11822F
  • 11223W
  • 7923S
  • 11924F
  • 11825W
  • 7825S
Enrolment by term: 21F 114, 22S 172, 22F 118, 23W 112, 23S 79, 24F 119, 25W 118, 25S 78
Peak 172 Most recent 78 in 25S 8 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 132 · 11.2%
  • A 697 · 59.0%
  • A- 193 · 16.3%
  • B+ 78 · 6.6%
  • B 17 · 1.4%
  • B- 8 · 0.7%
  • C+ 1 · 0.1%
  • C 1 · 0.1%
  • C- 2 · 0.2%
  • D+ 1 · 0.1%
  • P 43 · 3.6%
  • I 7 · 0.6%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

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
TULIPANA, PAUL ANDREW 3.91 3.91 715 6 96%
GALLAGHER, KATIE JANE 3.71 3.71 299 3 74%
GOLDSTEIN, ANDREW 3.99 4.00 116 1 100%

“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