Hardest PHIL classes at UCSC

Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.

1. PHIL 9: Intro Symbolic Logic Average GPA 3.05, 1,884 students
2. PHIL 28: Environmentl Ethics Average GPA 3.08, 129 students
3. PHIL 121: Epistemology Average GPA 3.17, 263 students
4. PHIL 8: Reason, Logic, Idols Average GPA 3.23, 725 students
5. PHIL 7: Elementary Logic Average GPA 3.23, 531 students
6. PHIL 100C: The Empiricists Average GPA 3.28, 378 students
7. PHIL 24: Intro Ethics Contem Average GPA 3.34, 374 students
8. PHIL 140: History Of Ethics Average GPA 3.34, 117 students
9. PHIL 11: Intro To Philosophy Average GPA 3.36, 5,317 students
10. PHIL 122: Metaphysics Average GPA 3.36, 113 students
11. PHIL 133: Philosophy Of Mind Average GPA 3.37, 207 students
12. PHIL 106: Kant Average GPA 3.40, 151 students
13. PHIL 144: Soc & Pol Philos Average GPA 3.43, 119 students
14. PHIL 80C: Phil Sex Love Average GPA 3.45, 112 students
15. PHIL 124: Other Minds Average GPA 3.47, 120 students
16. PHIL 80M: Phil/Science Studies Average GPA 3.47, 111 students
17. PHIL 23: Phil Cognitive Sci Average GPA 3.48, 627 students
18. PHIL 27: Business Ethics Average GPA 3.52, 762 students
19. PHIL 190: Senior Seminar Average GPA 3.53, 332 students
20. PHIL 125: Phil Of Science Average GPA 3.53, 124 students
21. PHIL 22: Ethical Theory Average GPA 3.57, 2,178 students
22. PHIL 100A: Ancient Greek Phil Average GPA 3.57, 343 students
23. PHIL 100B: The Rationalists Average GPA 3.64, 362 students
24. PHIL 142: Advanced Ethics Average GPA 3.67, 110 students
25. PHIL 143: App Eth:Ethics Bowl Average GPA 3.81, 208 students

See also: Easiest classes, UCSC course catalog, PHIL course catalog.