SCAND 165B
Vikings on Film
Grades
3.54
Average grade awarded in SCAND 165B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
65%
of the 71 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
6 of 6 students passed
The registrar's own records: 71 grades over 3 terms, 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, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.40 to 3.63.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 10 · 14.1%
- A 26 · 36.6%
- A- 10 · 14.1%
- B+ 8 · 11.3%
- B 6 · 8.5%
- B- 5 · 7.0%
- C+ 3 · 4.2%
- C 2 · 2.8%
- D+ 1 · 1.4%
- P 6 of 78
- I 1 of 78
Percentages are of the 71 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, KIMBERLY A reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.54 | 71 | 3 | 65% | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, three hours. Exploration of representations of Vikings in medium of film, considering Viking films within their historic and cultural contexts. How does representation of Vikings on film correspond to historical reality of Vikings? What have Vikings come to signify in modern era and why? Do we see development in idea of Vikings over time that is reflected in films from different periods? How do representations of Vikings in films produced in Scandinavia differ from their representations in films from other cultures? How do we see changing ideas about gender, ethnicity, dis/ability, sexual preference, and other aspects of identity reflected in Viking films? Development of critical thinking and close textual analysis skills. All readings and films in English or with English subtitles. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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