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NR EAST 65

Global Time Travel

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Time travel is our most effective fictional device for asking what past was like, what future will bring, and how our present might look when viewed from other times. Though often associated with Euro-American genre of hard science fiction, time travel is global genre. Study of time travel stories, novels, television productions, and films from variety of periods, regions, and languages in order to explore anxieties genre responds to and other worlds it helps us imagine. Examination of theorists and critics whose work helps explain how time travel interacts with history, narrative, and visuality. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.75
n = 145 · 3 terms · ± 0.044
A range
79%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
12%
95% of those passed
D / F / W
0.7%
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.

  • 5222S
  • 4723S
  • 6624S
Enrolment by term: 22S 52, 23S 47, 24S 66
Peak 66 Most recent 66 in 24S 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 71 · 43.0%
  • A 28 · 17.0%
  • A- 15 · 9.1%
  • B+ 14 · 8.5%
  • B 14 · 8.5%
  • C+ 2 · 1.2%
  • F 1 · 0.6%
  • P 18 · 10.9%
  • NP 1 · 0.6%
  • I 1 · 0.6%

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
COOPERSON, MICHAEL DAVID 3.75 3.75 145 3 79%

“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