SOCIOL 138
Death, Dying, and Afterlife
Grades
3.33
Average grade awarded in SOCIOL 138. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
55%
of the 559 letter grades
D, F or W
4.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
10 of 13 students passed
The registrar's own records: 559 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 3.11 to 3.54.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 80 · 14.3%
- A 125 · 22.4%
- A- 100 · 17.9%
- B+ 83 · 14.8%
- B 69 · 12.3%
- B- 35 · 6.3%
- C+ 17 · 3.0%
- C 18 · 3.2%
- C- 7 · 1.3%
- D+ 5 · 0.9%
- D 1 · 0.2%
- D- 6 · 1.1%
- F 13 · 2.3%
- P 10 of 580
- NP 3 of 580
- I 8 of 580
Percentages are of the 559 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TIMMERMANS, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.33 | 3.33 | 559 | 2 | 55% | - | 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
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
(Formerly numbered M138.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Social analysis of social inequities in death, understanding of what constitutes good death, how we make sense of bad deaths, how to dispose of death, and what constitutes appropriate grieving. Death remains at foundation of discipline of sociology. Suicide does not occur randomly but is stratified according to social factors such as age, gender, race, sexual orientation, and class. Review of strength of sociological argument and evaluation of explanatory potential of different theories to make sense of death. Examination of historic and contemporary studies to examine how research and conceptualizations of death and dying have changed, and social responses to these phenomena. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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