PHILOS M152B
Topics in Moral Philosophy: Evil: Nature, Source, and Motivation of Evil
Also listed as RELIGN M179: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.46
Average grade awarded in PHILOS M152B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
63%
of the 59 letter grades
D, F or W
3.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 59 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.29 to 3.74.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 3.4%
- A 15 · 25.4%
- A- 20 · 33.9%
- B+ 11 · 18.6%
- B 7 · 11.9%
- B- 1 · 1.7%
- C+ 1 · 1.7%
- F 2 · 3.4%
- P 2 of 65
- I 4 of 65
Percentages are of the 59 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, MARK C reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.46 | 59 | 3 | 63% | heavy | 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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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. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
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
(Same as Study of Religion M179.) Lecture, three to four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: one philosophy course. Course 152A is not requisite to M152B. Exploration of philosophical issues raised by topic of evil actions and/or evil people. Issues may include nature of evil, problem of evil and theodicies, responsibility for evil and problem of free will, causes and motivations for evil action, and variant responses to evil such as forgiveness and punishment. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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