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ENGL M50

Introduction to Visual Culture

(Same as Film and Television M50.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of how visual media, including advertising, still and moving images, and narrative films, influence contemporary aesthetics, politics, and knowledge. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.82
n = 340 · 5 terms · ± 0.029
A range
88%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.3%
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.

  • 5921F
  • 6022F
  • 8423W
  • 7823F
  • 6625W
Enrolment by term: 21F 59, 22F 60, 23W 84, 23F 78, 25W 66
Peak 84 Most recent 66 in 25W 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 10 · 2.9%
  • A 263 · 75.8%
  • A- 26 · 7.5%
  • B+ 12 · 3.5%
  • B 9 · 2.6%
  • B- 10 · 2.9%
  • C+ 1 · 0.3%
  • C 5 · 1.4%
  • C- 3 · 0.9%
  • D- 1 · 0.3%
  • P 7 · 2.0%

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
MCHUGH, KATHLEEN A 3.82 3.82 224 3 87%
HORNBY, LOUISE E J 3.83 3.84 116 2 90%

“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