PSYCH M174
Health Disparities
Also listed as LIFESCI M174: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.05
Average grade awarded in PSYCH M174. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
42%
of the 85 letter grades
D, F or W
5.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
4 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 85 grades over 2 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 2 terms ran 2.87 to 3.21.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 1.2%
- A 28 · 32.9%
- A- 7 · 8.2%
- B+ 10 · 11.8%
- B 11 · 12.9%
- B- 5 · 5.9%
- C+ 5 · 5.9%
- C 12 · 14.1%
- C- 1 · 1.2%
- D 1 · 1.2%
- F 4 · 4.7%
- P 4 of 89
Percentages are of the 85 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAYS, VICKIE M reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.05 | 85 | 2 | 42% | - | 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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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for PSYCH M174 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.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Life Sciences M174.) Lecture, three hours. Examination of health disparities and ways in which societal responses to race and ethnicity in combination with variety of other factors create differential quality and access to healthcare resulting in poor health outcomes in racial/ethnic minorities. Basic foundation for critical thinking about assumptions that shape life sciences, medical research, clinical practice, and social and behavioral sciences as they relate to racial and ethnic minority populations and to teach students to integrate concepts of culture and health disparities into other social, biological, political, psychological, genetic, and clinical health interests. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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