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ENGL 156

Devotion and Dissent

Sections & times

Grades

3.11

Average grade awarded in ENGL 156. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

39%

of the 18 letter grades

D, F or W

5.3%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

14%

3 of 3 students passed

The registrar's own records: 18 grades over 1 term, 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.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 1 · 5.6%
  • A 2 · 11.1%
  • A- 4 · 22.2%
  • B+ 4 · 22.2%
  • B 1 · 5.6%
  • B- 1 · 5.6%
  • C+ 1 · 5.6%
  • C 4 · 22.2%
  • P 3 of 22
  • DR 1 of 22

Percentages are of the 18 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and withdrawals (DR).

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.

Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Winter 2026
SHUGER, DEBORA K reviews ↗ 3.23 3.11 18 · 1 39% - 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.

Reviews for ENGL 156

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.

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What comes first

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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Winters

Has not run in Winter in the 3 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2022. That is 3 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2022.

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

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Examination of religious thought and practice associated with Reformation and Counter-Reformation enterprises in early modern period and consideration of how various types of writing—poems, prayer books, sermons, historical chronicles, essays, travel narratives, trial records—reflect and assess religious ferment of era. Coverage of either broad historical range such as from Henry VIII’s break with Rome to execution of Charles I or one specific topic such as varieties of martyrdom, art of confession, or conversion narratives. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Winter 2026

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From the people who took it

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