WL ARTS 51W
Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.69
Average grade awarded in WL ARTS 51W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 267 letter grades
D, F or W
3.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
4 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 267 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 2.94 to 3.85.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 103 · 38.6%
- A 111 · 41.6%
- A- 4 · 1.5%
- B+ 5 · 1.9%
- B 23 · 8.6%
- B- 3 · 1.1%
- C 10 · 3.7%
- F 8 · 3.0%
- P 4 of 271
Percentages are of the 267 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHORTER, DAVID DELGADO reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.67 | 240 | 5 | 80% | heavy | not teaching it |
| GATES, WESLEIGH reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.64 | 28 | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| YATES, AMANDA reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.85 | 27 | 1 | 96% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 3 mentions in past reviews
- 2 papers, 4 mentions in past reviews
Based on 18 reviews; source checked 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
dibs has not read a class page for WL ARTS 51W in any term it holds, 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
No grade records for this course in the 3 Winters covered, back to Fall 2022. This grade history does not establish current or future offerings. Its latest grade record in this history is from Fall 2024.
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, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Combination of approaches of discourse analysis and scientific method to understand how people make sense of other people's stories of aliens, psychics, and ghosts. Exploration of how people come to believe what they do about human life, life after death, and other-than-human life. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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