ANTHRO 136M
Medical Anthropology
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 88 · 48.1%
- A 73 · 39.9%
- A- 11 · 6.0%
- B+ 4 · 2.2%
- B 1 · 0.5%
- B- 4 · 2.2%
- C 1 · 0.5%
- D+ 1 · 0.5%
- P 3 of 187
- I 1 of 187
Percentages are of the 183 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACIKSOZ, SALIH CAN reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.94 | 163 | 1 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
| 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.
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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 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 Spring 2026
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