HIST 173D
Postwar Japanese History through Film
Grades
3.62
Average grade awarded in HIST 173D. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
78%
of the 287 letter grades
D, F or W
2.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
4 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 287 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.56 to 3.67.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 8 · 2.8%
- A 111 · 38.7%
- A- 104 · 36.2%
- B+ 40 · 13.9%
- B 11 · 3.8%
- B- 4 · 1.4%
- C+ 1 · 0.3%
- F 8 · 2.8%
- P 4 of 300
- S 1 of 300
- I 8 of 300
Percentages are of the 287 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), satisfactory (S), and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAROTTI, WILLIAM reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.62 | 287 | 3 | 78% | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of postwar Japanese history through medium of film and film criticism. Much of postwar Japanese cinema can be seen as reflecting on and questioning place of Japan in world reshaped by catastrophic war and its lingering specter. Through screenings and critical discussion of select films spanning half-century following World War II, consideration of cultural, aesthetic, and sociopolitical significance of postwar as demarcated category in Japan. Reflection on ways in which filmic presentations of state of being postwar engaged with lived history, memory, and present time. P/NP or letter grading.
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