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ENGL 10C

Literatures in English, 1850 to Present

Sections & times

Grades

3.53

Average grade awarded in ENGL 10C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

64%

of the 552 letter grades

D, F or W

0.9%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

1%

4 of 4 students passed

The registrar's own records: 552 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 3.14 to 3.82.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 16 · 2.9%
  • A 193 · 35.0%
  • A- 146 · 26.4%
  • B+ 83 · 15.0%
  • B 46 · 8.3%
  • B- 42 · 7.6%
  • C+ 8 · 1.4%
  • C 11 · 2.0%
  • C- 2 · 0.4%
  • D+ 1 · 0.2%
  • F 4 · 0.7%
  • P 4 of 567
  • I 11 of 567

Percentages are of the 552 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Spring 2026
BRISTOW, JOSEPH E reviews ↗ 3.40 3.39 270 4 56% average not teaching it
GROSSMAN, JONATHAN HAMILTON reviews ↗ 3.62 3.63 215 3 70% light not teaching it
COHEN, MICHAEL C reviews ↗ 3.70 3.74 67 1 82% light 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.

Reviews for ENGL 10C

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

  • 1 exam, said by 5 reviewers
  • Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
  • 3 papers, said by 4 reviewers
  • 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
  • 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer

Read from 42 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

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What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 10C in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Springs

Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.

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, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 4W, English Composition 3. Recommended requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Survey of major writers and genres, with emphasis on tools for literary analysis such as close reading, argumentation, historical and social context, and critical writing. Minimum of three papers (three to five pages each) or equivalent required. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Spring 2026

dibs has not read Spring 2026 for this course, so it cannot say whether it runs. dibs reads the term you are enrolling in first and the rest a little at a time; the registrar's own listing is the answer until this one catches up.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking ENGL 10C was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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