PUB HLT 50A
Introduction to Public Health I
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
-
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 50 · 7.6%
- A 351 · 53.3%
- A- 107 · 16.3%
- B+ 62 · 9.4%
- B 49 · 7.4%
- B- 19 · 2.9%
- C+ 11 · 1.7%
- C 5 · 0.8%
- D+ 2 · 0.3%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- F 1 · 0.2%
- I 2 of 660
Percentages are of the 658 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | - | 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
- 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 Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 3 Winters.
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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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