FILM TV 6A
History of American Motion Picture
Lecture and discussion.
Winter 2027: 1 lecture and 8 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 15 days ago.
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
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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 2027 |
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| 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 2027
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 Time TBANot published yet
Not yet assigned
3.74predicted, all instructors · 1,746 gradesno enrollment count published no history
not checked yet8 discussions. The registrar has not published seat counts for them yet.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (8)
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Dis 1A
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1B
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1C
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1D
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1E
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1F
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1G
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Dis 1H
Time TBA · Room not yet assigned
Not published yetno enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 150 and 239 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 234 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Winter 2027
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking FILM TV 6A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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