COM LIT 4DW
Literature and Writing: Great Books from World at Large: Writing Exile and Alienation
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in COM LIT 4DW. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
79%
of the 386 letter grades
D, F or W
1.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 386 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 3.35 to 3.92.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 20 · 5.2%
- A 176 · 45.6%
- A- 108 · 28.0%
- B+ 42 · 10.9%
- B 21 · 5.4%
- B- 4 · 1.0%
- C+ 3 · 0.8%
- C 5 · 1.3%
- D+ 1 · 0.3%
- F 6 · 1.6%
- I 6 of 392
Percentages are of the 386 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEVITZ, TAMARA JUDITH-MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.69 | 171 | 4 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
| ROTHBERG, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.63 | 153 | 5 | 73% | - | not teaching it |
| ARAUJO, JASON ALEXANDER reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.57 | 23 | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KAUFMAN, ELEANOR K reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.85 | 20 | 1 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
| MARTINEZ, NANCY reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.60 | 19 · | 1 | 68% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 6 mentions in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 11 mentions in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 40 reviews; source checked about 2 months 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 COM LIT 4DW. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for COM LIT 4DW in Summer Session C 2026 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 2DW. Study and discussion of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include the following areas: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. Texts may include works by authors such as Achebe, Can Xue, Desai, Emecheta, Kincaid, Neruda, Ngugi, Pak, Rushdie, and El Saadawi. Analysis of texts includes focus on structures, processes, and practices that generate inter-group inequities or conflicts as well as those that support fairness and inclusiveness. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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