Mass Communication and Society
Examines relationships between mass communications and society, analyzing media performance and suggesting changes.
Summary
Historical reviews of Lewis Friedland: The course requires approximately 100 pages of reading per week, which is manageable for interested students, with lectures covering main reading points.
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Prerequisites
Course mapJunior standing; not open to special students
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Professors
Fall 2026No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Lewis Friedland: Lewis Friedland is described as knowledgeable, passionate, and approachable, with a calm demeanor and ability to relate material to modern life. Reviewers note his helpfulness and clear passion for teaching, though one finds the class bland.
LEWIS FRIEDLAND is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2018, Fall 2018. 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
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Lewis Friedland describe a passionate, knowledgeable instructor who connects media studies to modern life, though experiences vary from transformative to bland.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.54 GPA, 78.8% A/AB (n=52 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.59 GPA, 83.6% A/AB (n=55 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Lewis Friedland: The course requires approximately 100 pages of reading per week, which is manageable for interested students, with lectures covering main reading points.
Historical reviews of Lewis Friedland: Students report mixed experiences, with some finding the class bland while others criticize the instructor for letting political opinions dominate lectures instead of covering assigned material.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
Before grades are released– average GPA
Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 recent 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.
5 earlier forecasts · 0.17 GPA average error.
Grades over time
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Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1289 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
Catalog & offerings
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Model & dataset provenance
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