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Dibs Fall 2026

CHIN 40

Popular Culture in Modern Chinese Societies

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of modern Chinese popular culture in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese communities. From fiction to film, music to MTV, and cartoons to karaoke, probing of popular as it has manifested itself in Chinese societies and tracing of its development over last century. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.78
n = 456 · 2 terms · ± 0.025
A range
88%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
7%
97% of those passed
D / F / W
2.2%
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.

  • 24822F
  • 24425W
Enrolment by term: 22F 248, 25W 244
Peak 248 Most recent 244 in 25W 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 121 · 24.6%
  • A 242 · 49.2%
  • A- 36 · 7.3%
  • B+ 13 · 2.6%
  • B 16 · 3.3%
  • B- 7 · 1.4%
  • C+ 5 · 1.0%
  • C 6 · 1.2%
  • D 3 · 0.6%
  • D- 2 · 0.4%
  • F 5 · 1.0%
  • P 35 · 7.1%
  • NP 1 · 0.2%

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
BERRY, MICHAEL SANFORD 3.78 3.78 456 2 88%

“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