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IRANIAN 55

Gender and Sexuality in Arts and Literatures of Iran and Middle East

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Multifaceted introduction to Persian poetry, recognized as jewel of Persian culture, and to pictorial, architectural, performative, cinematographic, and photographic dimensions of artistic milieu spanning between Balkans, India, and Central Asia from 10th century CE to present. With consideration of centrality of discourses on identity, desire, and spirituality to core of Persian aesthetics, study of broad variety of socioanthropological, ethical, and historiographical issues stemming from both mainstream topics characterizing extensive field of Iranian studies and most controversial conversations on nature of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.87
n = 218 · 2 terms · ± 0.036
A range
93%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.4%
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.

  • 12322S
  • 10722F
Enrolment by term: 22S 123, 22F 107
Peak 123 Most recent 107 in 22F 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 86 · 37.4%
  • A 91 · 39.6%
  • A- 25 · 10.9%
  • B+ 8 · 3.5%
  • B 4 · 1.7%
  • B- 1 · 0.4%
  • D+ 1 · 0.4%
  • F 2 · 0.9%
  • P 12 · 5.2%

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
INGENITO, DOMENICO 3.87 3.87 218 2 93%

“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