ENGL 32
Future Environments: Cities, Ecologies, Planets
- Literary and Cultural Analysis
- Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis
- Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the study of natural and built environments often involved visions of the future along with proposals for social and political change: narratives and images of what better futures might look like, and how worse futures might be avoided. Implicitly or explicitly, these narratives of future environments are enmeshed with underlying assumptions about what the best social order would be, how a more just society might function, and how human communities should relate to nonhuman species and systems. Focus on connection between stories about urban, ecological, and planetary futures; technologies involved in their creation, use, and maintenance; and underlying assumptions that shape them. Students apply narrative analysis and reasoning about social justice to stories about future environments and techno-social innovation. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.49
- n = 30 · 1 term · ± 0.084
- A range
- 77%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 9%
- 100% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 10.0%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 3324S
Grade distribution
- A+ 6 · 18.2%
- A 10 · 30.3%
- A- 7 · 21.2%
- B+ 3 · 9.1%
- B- 1 · 3.0%
- F 3 · 9.1%
- P 3 · 9.1%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEISE, URSULA K | 3.44 | 3.42 | 30 | 1 | 77% |
“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.
By term
- 24S 3.42 n=30