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Dibs Fall 2026

FILM TV M50

Introduction to Visual Culture

(Same as English M50.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of how visual media, including advertising, still and moving images, and narrative films, influence contemporary aesthetics, politics, and knowledge. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.70
n = 341 · 5 terms · ± 0.029
A range
80%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
4%
87% of those passed
D / F / W
1.5%
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.

  • 5821F
  • 5922F
  • 8523W
  • 7823F
  • 7725W
Enrolment by term: 21F 58, 22F 59, 23W 85, 23F 78, 25W 77
Peak 85 Most recent 77 in 25W 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 10 · 2.8%
  • A 213 · 59.7%
  • A- 50 · 14.0%
  • B+ 25 · 7.0%
  • B 18 · 5.0%
  • B- 9 · 2.5%
  • C+ 3 · 0.8%
  • C 5 · 1.4%
  • C- 3 · 0.8%
  • F 5 · 1.4%
  • P 13 · 3.6%
  • NP 2 · 0.6%
  • I 1 · 0.3%

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
MCHUGH, KATHLEEN A 3.69 3.69 234 3 76%
HORNBY, LOUISE E J 3.71 3.71 107 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