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Dibs Fall 2026

JAPAN 75

Anime

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Discussion and analysis of seminal works of Japanese animation, or anime, created from 1980s to present. Engagement with works in variety of styles, and that deal with broad range of themes. Reading and discussion of recent scholarship on anime produced by scholars working in diverse modes, from philosophical to anthropological. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.86
n = 899 · 4 terms · ± 0.018
A range
92%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
96% of those passed
D / F / W
0.9%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
241 of 244
99% full
 fills MW 11:00am-12:15pm Emmerich, M.D.
3.87n=730 · this instructor

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.

  • 26722S
  • 24124W
  • 24824F
Enrolment by term: 22S 267, 24W 241, 24F 248
Peak 267 Most recent 248 in 24F 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 272 · 29.3%
  • A 461 · 49.7%
  • A- 91 · 9.8%
  • B+ 33 · 3.6%
  • B 17 · 1.8%
  • B- 10 · 1.1%
  • C+ 2 · 0.2%
  • C 3 · 0.3%
  • C- 2 · 0.2%
  • D+ 1 · 0.1%
  • D 1 · 0.1%
  • F 6 · 0.6%
  • P 25 · 2.7%
  • NP 1 · 0.1%
  • I 2 · 0.2%

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
EMMERICH, MICHAEL D 3.87 3.87 730 3 92%
MCNELLY, KIMBERLY MARIE 3.86 3.85 92 1 90%
SHIMA, KENNETH MASAKI 3.78 3.76 77 1 87%

“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