PHILOS 22W
Introduction to Ethical Theory
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.46
Average grade awarded in PHILOS 22W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
60%
of the 371 letter grades
D, F or W
1.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 371 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 3.30 to 3.56.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 9 · 2.4%
- A 103 · 27.8%
- A- 109 · 29.4%
- B+ 54 · 14.6%
- B 41 · 11.1%
- B- 28 · 7.5%
- C+ 14 · 3.8%
- C 7 · 1.9%
- C- 1 · 0.3%
- D+ 3 · 0.8%
- D 2 · 0.5%
- I 3 of 375
- DR 1 of 375
Percentages are of the 371 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HERMAN, BARBARA reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 272 | 3 | 65% | average | not teaching it |
| HIERONYMI, PAMELA reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.30 | 99 | 1 | 45% | average | 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.
What the work looks like
- 4 exams, said by 4 reviewers
- No quizzes, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 papers, said by 6 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 48 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for PHILOS 22W in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Limited to freshmen/sophomores. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 22. Introduction to major ethical theories in Western thought. Examination of works of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill. Topics include ideas of virtue, obligation, egoism, relativism, and foundations of morals. Four papers required. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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