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ENGL 4W

Critical Reading and Writing

5 units Writing II

Sections & times

Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.

Lecture.

Fall 2026: 15 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 85 minutes ago.

Grades

3.82

Average grade awarded in ENGL 4W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

89%

of the 2,017 letter grades

D, F or W

1.1%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

-

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 2,017 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 3.48 to 3.96.

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

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

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 Fall 2026
MCEACHERN, CLAIRE reviews ↗ 3.81 3.81 1,033 8 89% - not teaching it
GOYAL, YOGITA reviews ↗ 3.82 3.82 767 8 89% very light not teaching it
HORNBY, LOUISE E J reviews ↗ 3.84 3.84 158 2 92% - not teaching it
COLACURCIO, MICHAEL J reviews ↗ 3.76 3.75 59 3 86% very 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.

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 4W

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.

dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGL 4W. 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. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Introduction to literary analysis, with close reading and carefully written exposition of selections from principal modes of literature: poetry, prose fiction, and drama. Minimum of 15 to 20 pages of revised writing. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 15 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 20 and 22 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 20 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking ENGL 4W was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 15 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · No instructors · -

Freed 4 seats over 4 days

0 of 4
17 Aug 15:0719 Aug 16:2321 Aug 17:40
99 hours plotted. dibs took 4 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.0 of 4 enrolled at the newest reading, 85 minutes ago. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 21 Aug 17:40, 4 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 99 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 2 · Diaz, J. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 enrolled

Filled by 2 over about 2 months

20 of 20 · no seats left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 05:391 Oct 20:12
dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 368. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 550 of 1086 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 85 minutes ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 20:12, 18 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 368 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 550 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 3 · Wang, B.B. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 enrolled

Filled by 2 over about 2 months

20 of 20 · no seats left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 05:391 Oct 20:12
dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 368. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 550 of 1086 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 85 minutes ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 20:12, 18 to 20. dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 368 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 550 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 4 · No instructors · -

Freed 20 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 4 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 20 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 5 · No instructors · -

Freed 18 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 6 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 18 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 6 · No instructors · -

Freed 19 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 7 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 19 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 7 · No instructors · -

Freed 19 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 5 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 19 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 8 · Dorsey, K. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 enrolled

Same seat count, but the status went closed to waitlist and the waitlist went 2 of 2 to 1 of 2 over about 2 months

20 of 20 · no seats left

All 9 readings say 20 of 20.

17 Aug 15:079 Sep 05:391 Oct 20:12
dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 368. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 550 of 1086 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 85 minutes ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 20:12, 20 to 20. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 368 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 550 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 9 · No instructors · -

Freed 19 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 8 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 19 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 10 · No instructors · -

Freed 19 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 7 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 19 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 11 · No instructors · -

Freed 19 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 4 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 19 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 12 · No instructors · -

Freed 20 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 6 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 20 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 13 · No instructors · -

Freed 20 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 5 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 20 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 14 · No instructors · -

Freed 20 seats over 11 days

17 Aug 15:0723 Aug 05:2328 Aug 19:40
269 hours plotted. dibs took 6 readings inside them and kept no hourly record of the hours between.Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 28 Aug 19:40, 20 to 0. dibs holds no hourly read record inside this window at all, so nothing drawn here says the count was checked between the readings. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 269 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 15 · Turner, C., Rosen, J., Barragan, G., Hua, X., and Vela, J. · 63 enrolled

Filled by 63 over about 2 months

63 of 72 · no seats left
17 Aug 15:079 Sep 05:391 Oct 20:12
dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record covers, 31%, and did not look in 368. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 550 of 1086 plotted.63 of 72 enrolled at the newest reading, 85 minutes ago, and no seats left. Seats from 17 Aug 15:07 to 1 Oct 20:12, 0 to 63. dibs read 168 of the 536 hours its hourly record here covers, 31%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 368 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 550 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.