ENGCOMP 6W
Language, Culture, and Discourse
Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Study of structure and use of English and how it reflects social structure and cultural values. Readings in linguistic analysis, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics provide foundation as students analyze authentic language as it is used in private and public contexts. Minimum of 15 to 20 pages of revised writing required. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.67
- n = 104 · 3 terms · ± 0.051
- A range
- 80%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 4%
- 75% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 1.9%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 2122S
- 2323S
- 2224S
Grade distribution
- A+ 13 · 11.9%
- A 42 · 38.5%
- A- 28 · 25.7%
- B+ 10 · 9.2%
- B 5 · 4.6%
- B- 2 · 1.8%
- C+ 1 · 0.9%
- C 1 · 0.9%
- F 2 · 1.8%
- P 3 · 2.8%
- NP 1 · 0.9%
- I 1 · 0.9%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEVERS, JEROEN | 3.73 | 3.74 | 66 | 2 | 89% |
| LISOVSKY, KARL F | 3.57 | 3.53 | 38 | 1 | 63% |
“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.
By term
- 22S 3.53 n=38
- 23S 3.68 n=44
- 24S 3.87 n=22