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SCAND 50W

Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50. 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. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.90
n = 433 · 6 terms · ± 0.026
A range
96%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
0% of those passed
D / F / W
1.2%
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.

  • 4022W
  • 3922S
  • 4023S
Enrolment by term: 22W 40, 22S 39, 23S 40
Peak 40 Most recent 40 in 23S 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 127 · 29.0%
  • A 260 · 59.4%
  • A- 28 · 6.4%
  • B+ 6 · 1.4%
  • B 6 · 1.4%
  • C+ 1 · 0.2%
  • F 5 · 1.1%
  • NP 1 · 0.2%
  • I 4 · 0.9%

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
PRESNER, TODD S 3.84 3.84 126 2 93%
PURDY, WILLIAM CHARLES 3.90 3.90 117 3 97%
LUNDE, ARNE O 3.92 3.93 78 2 96%
WEN, PATRICK JAMES 3.97 3.99 62 3 98%
BJEKOVIC, NINA 3.95 3.96 39 1 97%
LA PALM, KIMBERLY J 3.95 4.00 11 small sample 1 100%

“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