ENGCOMP 5W
Literature, Culture, and Critical Inquiry
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Lecture.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
3.70
Average grade awarded in ENGCOMP 5W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
79%
of the 855 letter grades
D, F or W
1.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 855 grades over 11 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.49 to 3.85.
Historical grades for STONE, BRUCE D, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHICHESTER, TEDDI LYNN reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.77 | 288 | 8 | 87% | average | not teaching it |
| GOMEZ, CARLOS RAFAEL reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.62 | 177 | 5 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| MEHDIZADEH, NEDDA reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.69 | 94 | 3 | 81% | heavy | not teaching it |
| PAGE, GABRIEL B reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.77 | 78 | 2 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| HITCHNER, THOMAS A reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.57 | 72 | 3 | 72% | very light | not teaching it |
| KIPEN, DAVID MORRIS reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.65 | 68 | 2 | 79% | heavy | not teaching it |
| FALLOWS, RANDALL JONATHAN reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.67 | 39 | 1 | 69% | heavy | not teaching it |
| DE, ESHA NIYOGI reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.82 | 21 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| MATTENSON, LAURI MICHELE reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.74 | 18 · | 1 | 72% | - | 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.
What the work looks like
- 3 papers, said by 19 reviewers
- 1 presentation, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 90 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGCOMP 5W. 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.
In Falls
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Use of analysis of literary works within cultural context to engage students in critical thinking and writing about issues important to academic inquiry and responsible citizenship. Minimum of 15 to 20 pages of revised text required in addition to regular informal writing exercises. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 10:00am-11:50amClosed3.70predicted, all instructors · 855 grades
15 of 15 · 5 over enrolled high risk
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Lec 2 TR 12:00pm-1:50pmClosed3.70predicted, all instructors · 855 grades
15 of 15 · 4 over enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 18 and 19 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 18 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ENGCOMP 5W was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
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 · Stone, B.D. · 15 of 15 · 5 over enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 5 seats.
Lec 2 · Stone, B.D. · 15 of 15 · 4 over enrolled
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 5 seats.
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.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.