ANTHRO 136M
Medical Anthropology
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in ANTHRO 136M. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
94%
of the 183 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 183 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 3.68 to 3.94.
Historical grades for ACIKSOZ, SALIH CAN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 88 · 54.0%
- A 62 · 38.0%
- A- 7 · 4.3%
- B+ 2 · 1.2%
- B 1 · 0.6%
- B- 1 · 0.6%
- C 1 · 0.6%
- D+ 1 · 0.6%
- P 3 of 167
- I 1 of 167
Percentages are of the 163 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 | Fall 2026 |
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| ACIKSOZ, SALIH CAN reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 163 | 1 | 96% | - | Waitlist, 2 of 18 places taken |
| BIGHAM, ABIGAIL WINSLOW reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.68 | 20 | 1 | 75% | - | 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 not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Medical anthropology examines affliction and healing across different cultural and historical contexts. Study of complex interactions between biology, culture, ideology, and society in construction of medical facts. Topics include disability; embodiment; health effects of racism, poverty, and war; humanitarianism; illness narratives; infectious diseases; medicalization; mental health; and organ transplantation. Students gain better grasp of theories and methods of medical anthropology, and ability to critically reflect on their own and others’ experiences of disease and healing, as well as on representations of human suffering and medical technologies. 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 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 12:30pm-1:45pmWaitlist3.93predicted, this instructor · 163 grades
2 of 18 places taken. 180 of 180 · 1 over enrolled high risk
9 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 2 of 18.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 9 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)
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Dis 1A
T 12:00pm-12:50pm · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1B
W 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist1 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1C
W 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
W 2:00pm-2:50pm · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
W 3:00pm-3:50pm · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
W 4:00pm-4:50pm · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 9:00am-9:50am · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1H
R 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1I
R 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall 314
Waitlist1 of 2 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: 167 a term over 1 term, summer excluded, most recently 167 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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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 · Aciksoz, S.C. · 180 of 180 · 1 over enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 29.
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.