FILM TV 6A
History of American Motion Picture
Grades
3.74
Average grade awarded in FILM TV 6A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
84%
of the 1,746 letter grades
D, F or W
1.7%
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: 1,746 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.46 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 481 · 27.5%
- A 711 · 40.7%
- A- 283 · 16.2%
- B+ 101 · 5.8%
- B 74 · 4.2%
- B- 37 · 2.1%
- C+ 13 · 0.7%
- C 9 · 0.5%
- C- 7 · 0.4%
- D+ 2 · 0.1%
- D 2 · 0.1%
- F 26 · 1.5%
- I 6 of 1,752
Percentages are of the 1,746 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANN, DENISE R reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.73 | 880 | 4 | 84% | light | not teaching it |
| WUEST, BRYAN G reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.77 | 434 | 3 | 85% | very light | not teaching it |
| RASTEGAR, ROYA ZAHRA reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 230 | 1 | 87% | very light | not teaching it |
| SCOTT, ELLEN reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.69 | 202 | 1 | 82% | - | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 11 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 9 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 10 reviewers
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 82 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.
In Winters
Ran in 2 of the last 3 Winters.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture/screenings, six hours; discussion, one hour. Historical and critical survey, with examples, of American motion picture both as developing art form and as medium of mass communication. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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