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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: 33

Average GPA: 3.72 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 65.22%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.58%

John K Aggrey202375.5%19.2%2.9%0.0%2.4%0.0%3.603
Philip R Olson202479.0%16.6%2.1%1.2%0.2%0.8%3.7115
Liora O Goldensher202280.8%16.9%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.692
Cora M Olson202487.2%8.5%1.0%0.6%2.0%0.7%3.7811
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

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Summer I 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Summer I 2023Fall 2023Winter 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W