DIS STD M166
Health-Care Ethics
Also listed as SOC GEN M166: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.69
Average grade awarded in DIS STD M166. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 29 letter grades
D, F or W
3.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
0 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 29 grades over 1 term, 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 8 · 27.6%
- A 14 · 48.3%
- A- 2 · 6.9%
- B+ 2 · 6.9%
- B 1 · 3.4%
- C 1 · 3.4%
- F 1 · 3.4%
- NP 1 of 32
- I 2 of 32
Percentages are of the 29 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: no-passes (NP) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARKS, VICTORIA E reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.69 | 29 | 1 | 83% | - | 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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for DIS STD M166 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 Fall 2021. 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 2021.
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 Society and Genetics M166.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Consideration of critical ethical concepts as they apply to health-care practice, medical decision-making, and medical technology development and use. Consideration of concepts drawn from philosophy, literature and culture, and political history including freedom, equality, justice, vitality, knowledge, kinship, mercy, illness, and disability. Examination of how concept of human dignity should shape health-care decisions such as physician-aided dying or selective abortion; proper relationship between history and concept of human rights and distribution of medical resources; how political and ethical category equality should structure development and use of genetic editing; how health-care concept of patient autonomy relates to political concept of liberty or freedom; how to evaluate good life, or what philosophers call flourishing, in medical treatment decisions for individuals or development of therapies. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking DIS STD M166 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.
Looking for more perspectives?
External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.