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Dibs Fall 2026

JAPAN 50

Japanese Civilization

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Survey of development of Japanese culture and its relationship to Asiatic mainland. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.79
n = 910 · 4 terms · ± 0.018
A range
87%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
6%
95% of those passed
D / F / W
1.3%
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.

  • 26721F
  • 29622F
  • 21623F
  • 19225S
Enrolment by term: 21F 267, 22F 296, 23F 216, 25S 192
Peak 296 Most recent 192 in 25S 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 97 · 10.0%
  • A 593 · 61.1%
  • A- 100 · 10.3%
  • B+ 48 · 4.9%
  • B 29 · 3.0%
  • B- 14 · 1.4%
  • C+ 10 · 1.0%
  • C 5 · 0.5%
  • C- 2 · 0.2%
  • D 2 · 0.2%
  • F 10 · 1.0%
  • P 56 · 5.8%
  • NP 3 · 0.3%
  • I 2 · 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
DUTHIE, TORQUIL 3.79 3.79 910 4 87%

“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