ENGL M138
Topics in Creative Writing
Also listed as ENGCOMP M138: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in ENGL M138. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 143 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
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: 143 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 3.69 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 36 · 25.2%
- A 90 · 62.9%
- A- 10 · 7.0%
- B+ 2 · 1.4%
- B 2 · 1.4%
- C 1 · 0.7%
- F 2 · 1.4%
- I 1 of 144
Percentages are of the 143 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEFANS, BRIAN KIM reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.91 | 49 | 2 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| GOYAL, YOGITA reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.87 | 34 | 2 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
| SNELSON, DANIEL SCOTT reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.79 | 19 · | 1 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| MCEACHERN, CLAIRE reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 4.00 | 15 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| ALLMENDINGER, BLAKE reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.75 | 14 · | 1 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| JAGER, ERIC reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 4.00 | 12 · | 1 | 100% | - | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGL M138. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL M138 in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. 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
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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
(Same as English Composition M138.) Seminar, three hours. Requisite: English Composition 3 or 3D or 3DS or 3SL. Introductory workshop in genre(s) of instructor choice, that may include mixed genres, playwriting, screenwriting, literary nonfiction, or others. Enrollment in more than one section per term not permitted. May be repeated for maximum of 15 units. May not be used to satisfy workshop requirements for English creative writing concentration. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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