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STS-3314: Medical Dilemmas and Human Experience

Description: Provides a humanist perspective on dilemmas of medical ethics. Focus on the varieties of human experience of medical dilemmas. Topics include contemporary controversies, such as assisted reproduction, genetic testing and treatment, clinical trials, end-of-life interventions, and the allocation of health-care resources.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: SOC-4324, STS-4324

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 60

Average GPA: 3.68 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 61.91%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.55%

Pratyusha P Kiran202380.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.801
Roan G Parrish202357.2%42.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.491
Cora M Olson202388.4%7.3%1.1%0.8%1.9%0.6%3.7913
Valerie G Hardcastle200784.6%15.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.801
Philip R Olson202479.2%17.2%1.5%0.9%0.2%1.1%3.7421
John K Aggrey202375.5%19.2%2.9%0.0%2.4%0.0%3.603
Liora O Goldensher202280.8%16.9%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.692
James R Heflin201897.9%1.5%0.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.904
Ann F Laberge201390.5%9.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.874
Doris T Zallen201431.3%53.9%11.9%0.5%2.1%0.3%3.138
Monique S Dufour201594.3%5.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.832

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