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KOREA 40W

Korean Wave: Globalization of South Korean Popular Culture

Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 40. Knowledge of Korean not required. Introduction to Korean popular culture, with focus on representative global phenomenon of Korean Wave (Hallyu). Use of concepts that theorize transnational flows of culture and relationship between cultural and sociopolitical power as framework, with focus on different genres of media and their individual examples--from pop music, drama, film, and television. Analysis to understand each as example of larger movement of culture across national borders from contexts of production to contexts of reception. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.58
n = 21 · 1 term · ± 0.094
A range
52%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
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.

  • 2222W
Enrolment by term: 22W 22
Peak 22 Most recent 22 in 22W 1 term on record

Grade distribution

  • A 3 · 13.6%
  • A- 8 · 36.4%
  • B+ 6 · 27.3%
  • B 4 · 18.2%
  • P 1 · 4.5%

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
JUNG-KIM, JENNIFER J 3.53 3.50 21 1 52%

“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