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FILM TV 112

Film and Social Change

Lecture/screenings, six hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of cinema--as it has evolved in the U.S. and other countries--as a vehicle to document, comment upon, and enact political and social change. Examination of film movements, producers, industrial conditions, and audience reception practices that have foregrounded use of cinema in political and social movements including U.S. civil rights; anti-war; labor; feminist; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual; and disability rights. Study of essential terminology and style for writing about film, an increasingly vital competency for responsible citizenship in a media-driven public sphere. Study addresses diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, ability, class, and nationality through lectures, screenings, readings, and assignments that introduce students to theoretical concepts necessary to understand social and political conditions including power, ideology, hegemony, institution, etc. While focus is on the U.S., other countries and other formats for grounding in broader global context are referenced. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.52
n = 406 · 3 terms · ± 0.027
A range
69%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
3.9%
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.

  • 18624S
  • 15225S
Enrolment by term: 24S 186, 25S 152
Peak 186 Most recent 152 in 25S 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 10 · 2.5%
  • A 207 · 50.7%
  • A- 64 · 15.7%
  • B+ 47 · 11.5%
  • B 24 · 5.9%
  • B- 20 · 4.9%
  • C+ 7 · 1.7%
  • C 8 · 2.0%
  • C- 3 · 0.7%
  • D+ 1 · 0.2%
  • D 2 · 0.5%
  • D- 2 · 0.5%
  • F 11 · 2.7%
  • P 1 · 0.2%
  • I 1 · 0.2%

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
GREENE, SHELLEEN MAISHA 3.54 3.54 336 2 73%
WUEST, BRYAN G 3.42 3.40 70 1 51%

“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