FILM 80A: The Film Experience
University of California, Santa Cruz
Students learn to understand how films reach the public through a collaborative, industrial, and artistic practice; how films "work" in a narrative sense; how they construct meanings for viewers; and how their formal techniques construct different possibilities for meaning and interpretation.
Average GPA: 3.38
Grade distribution records: 1,931 students across 6 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 21 | 1.1% |
| A | 563 | 29.2% |
| A- | 412 | 21.3% |
| B+ | 257 | 13.3% |
| B | 254 | 13.2% |
| B- | 117 | 6.1% |
| C+ | 46 | 2.4% |
| C | 48 | 2.5% |
| C- | 16 | 0.8% |
| D+ | 7 | 0.4% |
| D | 11 | 0.6% |
| F | 34 | 1.8% |
| P | 125 | 6.5% |
| NP | 7 | 0.4% |
| S | 2 | 0.1% |
| U | 1 | 0.1% |
| W | 10 | 0.5% |
Based on 1,931 student grade records across 6 terms and 4 professors.
Instructors
- Topiary Landberg 952 students, Average GPA 3.31
- Quentin Alcott Lareau 383 students, Average GPA 3.72
- Christina Corfield 298 students, Average GPA 3.25
- Irene Gustafson 298 students, Average GPA 3.27