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ENGL 254

American Literature to 1900

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture.

Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.

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From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, three hours. Studies in Colonial and 19th-century American literature; limits of investigation set by individual instructor. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Silva, C.S. · 12 of 12 · 1 over enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.

12 of 12 · no seats left

Both readings say 12 of 12.

18 Aug 21:409 Sep 20:561 Oct 20:12 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 563 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 395. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 493 of 1056 plotted.12 of 12 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 18 Aug 21:40 to 1 Oct 20:12, 12 to 12. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 563 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 395 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 10:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 493 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

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