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VIETMSE 40

War in Vietnamese Popular Culture

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Vietnamese not required. Focus on popular culture produced and consumed by, or about, people in Vietnam and diasporas. Materials include theoretical and other scholarly texts, as well as literature, music, visual art, films, and comics. Reading of scholarly writings for argument, date, and methods, and learning to apply theoretical frameworks in readings and lectures to analysis of popular cultural productions. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.93
n = 143 · 3 terms · ± 0.044
A range
97%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
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.

  • 5021F
  • 4823W
  • 4924F
Enrolment by term: 21F 50, 23W 48, 24F 49
Peak 50 Most recent 49 in 24F 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 27 · 18.4%
  • A 97 · 66.0%
  • A- 15 · 10.2%
  • B+ 1 · 0.7%
  • B- 1 · 0.7%
  • C+ 2 · 1.4%
  • P 4 · 2.7%

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
NGUYEN-VO, THU-HUONG 3.93 3.93 143 3 97%

“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