KOREA 40W
Korean Wave: Globalization of South Korean Popular Culture
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.50
Average grade awarded in KOREA 40W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
52%
of the 21 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 21 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 3 · 14.3%
- A- 8 · 38.1%
- B+ 6 · 28.6%
- B 4 · 19.0%
- P 1 of 22
Percentages are of the 21 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUNG-KIM, JENNIFER J reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.50 | 21 | 1 | 52% | light | 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
- 1 exam, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 papers, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for KOREA 40W in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Winter 2022.
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, 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.
Sections in Spring 2027
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