JAPAN 75
Anime
Grades
3.84
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 75. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 965 letter grades
D, F or W
0.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 965 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.57 to 3.91.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 272 · 28.2%
- A 477 · 49.4%
- A- 115 · 11.9%
- B+ 54 · 5.6%
- B 21 · 2.2%
- B- 10 · 1.0%
- C+ 2 · 0.2%
- C 3 · 0.3%
- C- 2 · 0.2%
- D+ 2 · 0.2%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 6 · 0.6%
- P 25 of 993
- NP 1 of 993
- I 2 of 993
Percentages are of the 965 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMMERICH, MICHAEL D reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.87 | 730 | 3 | 92% | very light | not teaching it |
| MCNELLY, KIMBERLY MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.85 | 92 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| SHIMA, KENNETH MASAKI reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.76 | 77 | 1 | 87% | very light | not teaching it |
| SMITH, JORDAN ANTONY YAMAJI reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.57 | 66 | 1 | 61% | - | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 4 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 14 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 32 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
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.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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