MCD BIO 60
Biomedical Ethics
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
3.87
Average grade awarded in MCD BIO 60. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
91%
of the 1,321 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,321 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 3.68 to 4.00.
Historical grades for TULIPANA, PAUL ANDREW, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 137 · 15.1%
- A 572 · 63.1%
- A- 151 · 16.7%
- B+ 32 · 3.5%
- B 9 · 1.0%
- B- 1 · 0.1%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- C- 2 · 0.2%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- P 9 of 917
- I 1 of 917
- DR 1 of 917
Percentages are of the 906 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| TULIPANA, PAUL ANDREW reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.90 | 906 | 8 | 95% | very light | Closed by the department |
| GALLAGHER, KATIE JANE reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.71 | 299 | 3 | 74% | light | not teaching it |
| GOLDSTEIN, ANDREW reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 4.00 | 116 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 76 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
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.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 7 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 5:00pm-6:15pmClosed by the department3.90predicted, this instructor · 906 grades
119 enrolled no history
6 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Dis 1A
F 9:00am-9:50am · La Kretz Hall 100
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 10:00am-10:50am · La Kretz Hall 100
Closed by the department19 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 11:00am-11:50am · La Kretz Hall 100
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Slichter Hall 2834
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Slichter Hall 2834
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
F 2:00pm-2:50pm · Slichter Hall 2834
Closed by the department20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 78 and 172 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 118 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MCD BIO 60 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Tulipana, P.A. · 119 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 24.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.