Spring 2027

Doctors Without Borders (médecins Sans Frontières)

Overview of the global humanitarian NGO Doctors without Borders (MSF), covering its history, mission, organization, and the cultural, political, and ethical challenges it faces in global health and humanitarian action.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Ritt Deitz

Students read at least 80% of unit materials to succeed. The course involved fun reading, short written essays, and speaking presentations. Reviewers described the class as easy to succeed in.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Learn about the history, vision, mission, and impact of Doctors without Borders (MSF) in a range of health and humanitarian crises over time and world regions. Become knowledgeable about the ethical, political, cultural, economic, and professional dilemmas associated with a global health and humanitarian organization in crisis situations across different world regions.

  • Develop critical thinking and interdisciplinary views while reading a variety of texts and documents, and analyze sociological, historical, or cultural phenomena with rigor and depth.

  • Become knowledgeable about the role of writing - in essay, fiction, or reporting - as a feature of witnessing (“temoignage”) in health and humanitarian crises.

  • Be challenged to see and capture the world through the eyes of other cultures in order to enhance intercultural knowledge and develop a critical perspective to positively contribute to health and humanitarian action, globally and locally.

  • Learn to conduct comparative analysis of health and humanitarian organizations and engage critically with staff, stakeholders and partners of health and humanitarian NGOs as organizations and in the field.

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Prerequisites

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FRENCH 288

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

RITT DEITZ is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Ritt Deitz

Ritt Deitz taught this as an engaging, discussion-heavy lecture where he actively remembered student names. He delivered insights and anecdotes that made the large class feel like a small seminar.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.93 GPA, 96.7% A/AB (n=123 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.86 GPA, 97.3% A/AB (n=111 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 95.6% A/AB (n=135 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Ritt Deitz

Students read at least 80% of unit materials to succeed. The course involved fun reading, short written essays, and speaking presentations. Reviewers described the class as easy to succeed in.

Past student reviews · Ritt Deitz

One student noted that the professor did not display grades on Canvas. They described the class as easy and said the instructor cared about his students.

Topics

  • History, mission, organization, and challenges of Doctors without Borders (MSF)
  • Global health, social justice, and humanitarian action
  • Intercultural knowledge and critical perspectives on health and humanitarian action

Skills

  • Understand the history, vision, mission, and impact of Doctors without Borders (MSF) in various health and humanitarian crises.
  • Develop critical thinking and interdisciplinary perspectives by analyzing sociological, historical, or cultural phenomena from diverse texts.
  • Conduct comparative analysis of health and humanitarian organizations and engage critically with their stakeholders and partners.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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