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PHILOS 4

Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary Moral Issues

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Critical study of principles and arguments advanced in discussion of current moral issues. Possible topics include revolutionary violence, rules of warfare, sexual morality, right of privacy, punishment, nuclear warfare and deterrence, abortion and mercy killing, experimentation with human subjects, rights of women. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.54
n = 583 · 3 terms · ± 0.022
A range
63%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
93% of those passed
D / F / W
0.5%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 25321F
  • 25822F
  • 10524W
Enrolment by term: 21F 253, 22F 258, 24W 105
Peak 258 Most recent 105 in 24W 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 10 · 1.6%
  • A 146 · 23.6%
  • A- 213 · 34.5%
  • B+ 118 · 19.1%
  • B 62 · 10.0%
  • B- 17 · 2.8%
  • C+ 9 · 1.5%
  • C 5 · 0.8%
  • F 3 · 0.5%
  • P 26 · 4.2%
  • NP 2 · 0.3%
  • I 7 · 1.1%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
DEWITT, JANELLE 3.54 3.54 583 3 63%

“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.

By term