ENGCOMP 7W
Media Culture and Critical Inquiry
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.85
Average grade awarded in ENGCOMP 7W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 62 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 62 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.72 to 3.93.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 3.2%
- A 39 · 62.9%
- A- 16 · 25.8%
- B+ 3 · 4.8%
- B 1 · 1.6%
- B- 1 · 1.6%
Percentages are of the 62 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARGARET ELLEN reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.92 | 41 | 2 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| WESTRUP, LAUREL A reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.72 | 21 | 1 | 81% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of about 1 month ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGCOMP 7W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 7W in Winter 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Provides students with necessary critical framework and vocabulary for reading and interpreting visual, aural, dramatic, and/or digital representations and performances. Analysis of diverse multimedia texts to think critically about the politics of representation and the construction of individual and collective identities. Focus on developing, drafting, and revising written and multimodal compositions. Minimum of 15 pages of revised text required in addition to regular writing exercises. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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