Literature and Writing: Great Books from World at Large: Writing Exile and Alienation

Grades

3.66

Average grade awarded in COM LIT 4DW. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.031.

The registrar's own records: 386 grades over 11 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. 3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 11 terms ran 3.35 to 3.92.

By instructor

“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.

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Reviews for COM LIT 4DW ↗

What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before COM LIT 4DW. 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 5 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

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 Fall 2026

Seat counts as of 03 Sep 15:30. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

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  3.66

  course average · 386 grades

  20 of 20 enrolled high risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Students Only: restrictions read 9 hours ago

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 19 and 23 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 20 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.