ENGL 51A
Poems and Poets
Grades
3.83
Average grade awarded in ENGL 51A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
91%
of the 33 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 33 grades over 1 term, 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 5 · 15.2%
- A 16 · 48.5%
- A- 9 · 27.3%
- B 3 · 9.1%
Percentages are of the 33 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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAHL, ADITYA MOHAN reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.83 | 33 | 1 | 91% | - | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Offers sample of enormous body of poetry written in English since Middle Ages. Reading of series of celebrated poets and their poems as way of exploring what poetry is and what it is for. Specifically, how works of art respond to conditions of social life as well as intimate personal experience. Consideration of poetry's political power. In-depth discussion about gender, race, class, sexuality, colonial violence, and, broadly, relationship between art and justice. Students are familiarized with key poetic forms, conventions, and techniques; learn how to read poem critically; and get better at putting thoughts in writing. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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