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SCAND 60W

Introduction to Nordic Cinema

Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 60. Introduction to cinematic traditions of Nordic countries, with emphasis on construction of other or outsider as conceptual category. Survey of wide range of films to interrogate relationship between various forms of minority discourse and dominant values, institutions, and mechanisms and instruments of social control. Investigation of how these cinematic narratives of dominant normativity and diversity reflect cultural anxieties surrounding identity, ideology, collective memory, and power relationships. Screenings supplemented with relevant theoretical texts to give tools necessary to more effectively contextualize and analyze images. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.91
n = 18 · 1 term · ± 0.098
A range
100%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Grade distribution

  • A+ 9 · 45.0%
  • A 8 · 40.0%
  • A- 1 · 5.0%
  • I 1 · 5.0%
  • NR 1 · 5.0%

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
AJAY, ARKESH 3.95 3.98 18 small sample 1 100%

“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