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. 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.
- 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). 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 | Winter 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 · small sample | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
“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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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for COM LIT 4DW, 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 Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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.