Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=60 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.61 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=57 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Spring 2027
Topics in Literature and Film
Introduction to the interplay of literature and film in English, focusing on analyzing novels, stories, poems, and other writings and their representation and transformation in film. Specific topics vary.
offering recorded3 credits
Summary
1 / 6
Past student reviews · Joseph Bowling
Students found the books extremely convoluted and incomprehensible. The class involved very few movies, and the ones selected were described as strange.
What you’ll be able to do
Identify critical and theoretical concerns around the interplay between literature and film in English.
Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance.
Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
2,1982,198 letter grades
A65.7%65.7%
AB22.4%22.4%
B6.8%6.8%
BC1.8%1.8%
C1.8%1.8%
D0.5%0.5%
F1.0%1.0%
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Prerequisites
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Prerequisite text tree
- None
Professors
Spring 2027Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.58 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=39 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
AMANDA SHUBERT is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOSEPH BOWLING is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
RAQUEL KENNON is recorded teaching in Spring 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
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 30 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Online Only | 0 / 30 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Joseph Bowling
Joseph Bowling taught the course effectively, selecting interesting films and literature. He clearly explained expectations within the first week, and TAs provided good feedback.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=99 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=86 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.59 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Joseph Bowling
Students found the books extremely convoluted and incomprehensible. The class involved very few movies, and the ones selected were described as strange.
Past student reviews · Joseph Bowling
One student noted the theme was robots and sex, which they did not enjoy, though Bowling tried to make the material interesting.
Topics
- Interplay of literature and film in English, including analysis of novels, stories, poems, and other writings and their representation and transformation in film.
- Critical and theoretical concerns around the interplay between literature and film in English.
- Relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.
Skills
- Identify critical and theoretical concerns around the interplay between literature and film in English.
- Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance.
- Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.
Grades
Historical instructor
Spring 2027 · Projected
Before grades are releasedApproximate 80% prediction interval
0.04.0
About this estimate
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 · 0.06 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Spring 2027
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Catalog & offerings
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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Topics in Literature and Film
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Full model traces
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Model & dataset provenance
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