SCAND 50
Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in SCAND 50. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
97%
of the 953 letter grades
D, F or W
0.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
12 of 12 students passed
The registrar's own records: 953 grades over 10 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 10 terms ran 3.78 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 214 · 22.5%
- A 688 · 72.2%
- A- 26 · 2.7%
- B+ 7 · 0.7%
- B 7 · 0.7%
- B- 2 · 0.2%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- C 1 · 0.1%
- D+ 2 · 0.2%
- D 3 · 0.3%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 1 · 0.1%
- P 12 of 966
- S 1 of 966
Percentages are of the 953 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and satisfactory (S).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEN, PATRICK JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.95 | 940 | 10 | 97% | very light | not teaching it |
| PURDY, WILLIAM CHARLES reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 4.00 | 13 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 7 reviewers
- 9 quizzes, said by 6 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 36 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50W. Designed for students in general and for those wishing to prepare for more advanced and specialized studies in Scandinavian literature and culture. Selected works from literatures of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, ranging from myth, national epic, saga, and folktale through modern novel, poem, play, short story, and film, read in English and critically discussed. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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