Worst professor I've ever had. The class was 60% reading responses, 35% final paper, and 5% participation. Reading responses are graded either Outstanding, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory. You can get all Satisfactory, for example, but you you won't know what your grade is in the class. At the end of the term, depending on what he wants your final grade in the class to be, he'll decide a numerical (or letter) grade for your final paper, reading responses, and participation. His grading is basically very arbitrary. He also offers 0 help over email or during office hours. Makes you feel stupid for asking questions. I'd stay away honestly.

This class is very interesting and engaging! The workload is very manageable- only three papers due throughout the quarter. There are a lot of readings. The TAs are great as well and definitely make the content more understandable.

Tulipana is a great lecturer who thoroughly explains the material of the course in understandable parts for students who have never taken a philosophy class, like myself. If I ever need to go back and remember anything from his lectures, Tulipana has his slides on BruinLearn and they helped me. The workload for this class is manageable if you enjoy reading and writing, although if you don't, this class might be more of a chore to get through. The coursework given is spread out enough to not feel overwhelmed and I could easily comprehend writing philosophical answers to biomedical questions. If you are thinking of pre-health in the future and want to practice ethics within the health industry, then you will get a lot out of it.

Prof Tulipana is a great professor. He is always open to questions and gives plenty of examples to help students understand the concepts.

This was not enjoyable. It was rather easy, however.

The first half of the quarter was spent just discussing ethics. Think Kant, consequentialism, etc. It was quite dry. I also don't think he had any experience with bioethics specifically, so the connections between course concepts from the first half and medical/biological examples in the latter half were not super evident or helpful. I feel as though I left with decent ethics knowledge, but that's not why I took the class. The only time I really gleaned *bioethics* knowledge was in my discussion section.

There were two reflection papers and one midterm for this course. The midterm was quite long and took forever, but it was take-home and open book. We did not have a final due to the TA strike. (I don't know if UCLA technically allows this but Tulipana told us he couldn't think of a better alternative because he didn't want to personally grade a bunch of essay-based finals.)