RELIGN 55
Spirit of Medicine
Lecture. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 45 minutes ago.
Grades
3.71
Average grade awarded in RELIGN 55. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 188 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
6 of 6 students passed
The registrar's own records: 188 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.47 to 3.94.
Historical grades for GILLESPIE, RYAN T, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 112 · 59.6%
- A- 44 · 23.4%
- B+ 10 · 5.3%
- B 12 · 6.4%
- B- 4 · 2.1%
- C+ 1 · 0.5%
- C 2 · 1.1%
- F 3 · 1.6%
- P 6 of 194
Percentages are of the 188 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GILLESPIE, RYAN T reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.71 | 188 | 4 | 83% | very light | Waitlist, 2 of 3 places taken |
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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 12 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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 relationship between medicine, religion, and society; how religion is help or hindrance to health; and what health care might look like beyond biomedical clinic. Examination of historical entwinement of religion, medicine, and society in Western antiquity to early modern period; disentanglement in Enlightenment to early 20th century; and confluence of science, technology, and capitalism in biomedicine compartmentalized from religion today. Conceptualization of rhetorics and epistemologies of healing--what it means to be healed and how one would know--and put in tension with faith healings and religion-as-medicine, medicine-as-religion, and integrated approaches. Analysis of alternatives to biomedical status quo in theoretical medicine and in health care delivery, with particular attention to questions of justice and holistic care in U.S. and of policy and practice globally. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 12:30pm-1:45pmWaitlist3.71predicted, this instructor · 188 grades
2 of 3 places taken. 45 of 45 · 1 over enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 48 and 49 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 48 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 RELIGN 55 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 · Gillespie, R.T. · 45 of 45 · 1 over enrolled
Filled by 3 over about 2 months
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.