Fall 2026

Asian American Literary and Popular Culture: Race, Fantasy, Futures

Explores fantasy and race in Asian American fiction, graphic novels, anime, and art, examining political meaning and cultural anxieties.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Leslie Bow3.0/5Cherise FungHyorim Joe

Summary

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Students report heavy exam weighting where small mistakes significantly impact grades, alongside requirements to memorize essays and purchase specific course materials.

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Prerequisites

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ASIANAM 152

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Professors

Fall 2026

Leslie Bow

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About this rating

Raw average: 2.32/5 from 22 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 1.7/5 raw quality · 4.1/5 difficulty · 15 reviews

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Leslie Bow is praised for brilliant, thought-provoking lectures that encourage independent thinking, though some note the heavy reading load and memorization requirements.

Recent reviews criticize Bow for strict grading, unresponsive communication, and poor course organization, with students reporting high difficulty and dissatisfaction with assessment fairness.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.69 GPA, 86.9% A/AB (n=137 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.85 GPA, 92.1% A/AB (n=152 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.62 GPA, 78.4% A/AB (n=148 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LESLIE BOW is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction135 / 1620
DIS 301Classroom Instruction15 / 00
DIS 302Classroom Instruction15 / 00
DIS 303Classroom Instruction15 / 00
DIS 304Classroom Instruction15 / 00
DIS 305Classroom Instruction16 / 00
DIS 306Classroom Instruction13 / 00
DIS 307Classroom Instruction16 / 00
DIS 308Classroom Instruction16 / 00
DIS 309Classroom Instruction14 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Reviews for Leslie Bow are sharply divided, with early praise for engaging lectures contrasting with recent complaints about strict grading and poor organization.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.85 GPA, 92.1% A/AB (n=152 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.92 GPA, 97.6% A/AB (n=42 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.62 GPA, 78.4% A/AB (n=148 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Students report heavy exam weighting where small mistakes significantly impact grades, alongside requirements to memorize essays and purchase specific course materials.

Experiences range from finding the content thought-provoking to describing the professor as unresponsive, unreasonable, and favoring certain students without clear grading rubrics.

Topics

  • Stereotyping, caricature, microaggressions, whitewashing, yellowface, passing, race fetishism, cultural appropriation, multiracialism
  • Kawaii style, techno-orientalism, virtual Asians
  • Future projections, cultural anxieties, race, immigration
  • Race in nonhuman forms, objects, digital avatars, robots

Skills

  • Analyze race in visual and literary texts
  • Explore fantasy as political meaning
  • Examine future projections and cultural anxieties

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ASIANAM 152 · Fall 2026

Asian American Literary and Popular Culture: Race, Fantasy, Futures

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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