PUB HLT 50A
Introduction to Public Health I
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 7 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.71
Average grade awarded in PUB HLT 50A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 658 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 658 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 3.64 to 3.87.
Historical grades for SHAFIR, SHIRA CHANI, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 2.4%
- A 179 · 61.3%
- A- 37 · 12.7%
- B+ 25 · 8.6%
- B 23 · 7.9%
- B- 9 · 3.1%
- C+ 7 · 2.4%
- C 3 · 1.0%
- D+ 1 · 0.3%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- I 2 of 294
Percentages are of the 292 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Fall 2026 |
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| KIM-FARLEY, ROBERT J reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 366 | 3 | 78% | very light | not teaching it |
| SHAFIR, SHIRA CHANI reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.70 | 292 | 1 | 76% | - | Waitlist, 9 of 35 places taken |
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
- 2 exams, said by 1 reviewer
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 4 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 3 Falls.
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, four hours; discussion, one hour. Systematic exploration of history, philosophy, development, and scope of public health in U.S. and globally. Emphasis on scientific, social, and legal basis for public health practice, including strategies for advancing individual, community, and environmental public health. Survey of core public health functions and essential services with special focus on population health, health equity, environmental justice, and financing of health services. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 10:00am-11:50amWaitlist3.70predicted, this instructor · 292 grades
9 of 35 places taken. 225 of 225 enrolled high risk
7 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 9 of 35.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 7 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (10)
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Dis 1A
T 12:00pm-12:50pm · Public Health, School of 41268
Waitlist3 of 5 places taken.
32 of 32 enrolled
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Dis 1B
T 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Health, School of 51279
Waitlist0 of 5 places taken.
33 of 33 enrolled
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Dis 1C
T 2:00pm-2:50pm · Center for the Health Sciences 23105A
Waitlist1 of 5 places taken.
32 of 32 enrolled
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Dis 1D
T 3:00pm-3:50pm · Public Health, School of
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1E
R 12:00pm-12:50pm · Public Health, School of 41268
Waitlist1 of 5 places taken.
32 of 32 enrolled
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Dis 1F
R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Public Health, School of 51279
Waitlist1 of 5 places taken.
32 of 32 enrolled
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Dis 1G
R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Public Health, School of 51279
Waitlist1 of 5 places taken.
32 of 32 enrolled
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Dis 1H
Time TBA · Consult Instructor
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1I
F 9:00am-9:50am · Mathematical Sciences 5138
Waitlist2 of 5 places taken.
32 of 32 enrolled
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Cancelled
no enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 101 and 294 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 294 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking PUB HLT 50A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Shafir, S.C. · 225 of 225 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 82.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.