PHILOS 173
Philosophy of Medicine
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in PHILOS 173. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 122 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 122 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.64 to 3.74.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 29 · 23.8%
- A 36 · 29.5%
- A- 28 · 23.0%
- B+ 16 · 13.1%
- B 6 · 4.9%
- B- 2 · 1.6%
- C+ 2 · 1.6%
- C 1 · 0.8%
- F 2 · 1.6%
- P 1 of 124
- I 1 of 124
Percentages are of the 122 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROUSH, SHERRILYN reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.64 | 98 | 1 | 76% | very light | not teaching it |
| LAWRENCE, GAVIN reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.74 | 24 | 1 | 79% | - | 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.
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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.
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three to four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Focus on questions like what is health, what is well-being, what is mental disorder, and what is disability. Consideration of naturalistic, normative, and social constructivist types of answers, and error theories. Consideration of roles that fact, value, statistical norms, normal variation, normal function, and harm might have in these concepts. Study of consequences of different accounts of these concepts for people with minority bodies, minds, and sexualities, and for decisions about cure, enhancement, and reproduction. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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