JAPAN 154
Postwar Japanese Culture through Literature
Grades
3.78
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 154. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 109 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 109 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 3.70 to 3.83.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 19 · 17.4%
- A 49 · 45.0%
- A- 22 · 20.2%
- B+ 13 · 11.9%
- B 3 · 2.8%
- B- 1 · 0.9%
- C+ 1 · 0.9%
- C 1 · 0.9%
- P 1 of 110
Percentages are of the 109 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHIMA, KENNETH MASAKI reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.79 | 42 | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| LIPPIT, SEIJI MIZUTA reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.83 | 40 | 1 | 83% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| SMITH, JORDAN ANTONY YAMAJI reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.70 | 27 | 1 | 81% | - | 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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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before JAPAN 154. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for JAPAN 154 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for COM LIT 1A, COM LIT 1B, COM LIT 1C, COM LIT 1D, ENGCOMP 2, and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or one course from Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Use of fiction and film to explore Japanese culture in postwar era in broad cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural context. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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