ENGCOMP 131B
Specialized Writing: Business and Social Policy
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in ENGCOMP 131B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
95%
of the 1,119 letter grades
D, F or W
0.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
0 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 1,119 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.80 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 129 · 11.5%
- A 752 · 67.2%
- A- 179 · 16.0%
- B+ 31 · 2.8%
- B 15 · 1.3%
- B- 5 · 0.4%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- C 3 · 0.3%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- F 3 · 0.3%
- NP 1 of 1,124
- S 2 of 1,124
- I 2 of 1,124
Percentages are of the 1,119 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HITCHNER, THOMAS A reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 468 | 15 | 95% | light | not teaching it |
| HARTENBERGER, LAURA A reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 3.93 | 137 | 5 | 99% | - | not teaching it |
| SAMUELSON, MARY G reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.95 | 125 | 7 | 98% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BATTLE, DARIEN reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 4.00 | 90 | 5 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| DAVIS, MARGARET ELLEN reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.90 | 82 | 3 | 98% | heavy | not teaching it |
| PATCHIGONDLA, JADA reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.74 | 63 | 4 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| LEW, MARY ELIZABETH reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.83 | 57 | 3 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| JULIANO, LINZI MICHEL reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.81 | 40 | 2 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
| JULIANO, LOGAN reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.79 | 39 | 2 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| JOHNSON, DARIEN reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.98 | 18 · | 1 | 100% | light | 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.
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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
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGCOMP 131B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 131B in Fall 2025 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 Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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. Requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing and English Composition requirements. Designed for juniors/seniors. Advanced writing course designed to help students develop stylistic, formal, and argumentative sophistication in various rhetorical contexts, including different sections that emphasize rhetorical values of major professions and research areas. May be taken independently for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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