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ITALIAN 46

Italian Cinema and Culture in English

Lecture/screenings, five hours; discussion, one hour. Special topics in Italian culture as reflected and reinforced by the nation's prime artform, stressing aesthetics and ideology of films, contemporary Italian history, and politics. Rotating topics include sex and politics, comedy, integration, family networks, and neorealism. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.22
n = 295 · 3 terms · ± 0.031
A range
48%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
6%
80% of those passed
D / F / W
4.1%
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.

  • 9222S
  • 11223F
  • 11124F
Enrolment by term: 22S 92, 23F 112, 24F 111
Peak 112 Most recent 111 in 24F 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 10 · 3.2%
  • A 73 · 23.2%
  • A- 60 · 19.0%
  • B+ 40 · 12.7%
  • B 40 · 12.7%
  • B- 21 · 6.7%
  • C+ 9 · 2.9%
  • C 19 · 6.0%
  • C- 11 · 3.5%
  • D+ 1 · 0.3%
  • D 2 · 0.6%
  • D- 3 · 1.0%
  • F 6 · 1.9%
  • P 16 · 5.1%
  • NP 4 · 1.3%

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
HARRISON, THOMAS J 3.21 3.21 295 3 48%

“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