ENGL M30
Environmental Literature and Culture
Also listed as ENVIRON M30: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.78
Average grade awarded in ENGL M30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
86%
of the 191 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
5%
10 of 11 students passed
The registrar's own records: 191 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.64 to 3.88.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 22 · 11.5%
- A 92 · 48.2%
- A- 50 · 26.2%
- B+ 15 · 7.9%
- B 4 · 2.1%
- B- 3 · 1.6%
- C+ 3 · 1.6%
- C 1 · 0.5%
- C- 1 · 0.5%
- P 10 of 204
- NP 1 of 204
- S 1 of 204
- I 1 of 204
Percentages are of the 191 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), and 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEISE, URSULA K reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.78 | 191 | 5 | 86% | - | 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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 5 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 5 reviewers
- 3 projects, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 18 reviews about 1 month 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 ENGL M30. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL M30 in Winter 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.
In Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 3 Winters, so it turns up in Winter 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 Environment M30.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3, 3D, or 3DX. Introduction to core themes, questions, and methods within interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Examination of how different culture forms (e.g., fiction, journalism, poetry, visual art) represent environmental issues. Topics may include biodiversity, wilderness, food, urban ecologies, postcolonial ecologies, environmental justice, and climate change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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