ENGL 4W
Critical Reading and Writing
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Lecture.
Fall 2025: 6 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month 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
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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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 337 · 16.7%
- A 1,212 · 60.1%
- A- 251 · 12.4%
- B+ 74 · 3.7%
- B 64 · 3.2%
- B- 24 · 1.2%
- C+ 8 · 0.4%
- C 19 · 0.9%
- C- 6 · 0.3%
- D+ 1 · 0.0%
- D 2 · 0.1%
- F 19 · 0.9%
- NP 1 of 2,033
- I 14 of 2,033
- DR 1 of 2,033
Percentages are of the 2,017 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGL 4W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 4W 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. 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 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 6 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 MW 4:00pm-5:50pmClosed by the department
Sharrah, R.K. and Hornby, L.E.
3.81predicted, all instructors · 2,017 grades18 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lec 2 TR 12:00pm-1:50pmWaitlist
Fast Dog, L. and Hornby, L.E.
3.81predicted, all instructors · 2,017 grades0 of 2 places taken. 20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lec 3 TR 10:00am-11:50amWaitlist
Wang, B.B. and Hornby, L.E.
3.81predicted, all instructors · 2,017 grades0 of 2 places taken. 20 of 20 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lec 4 TR 12:00pm-1:50pmWaitlist
Severson, E. and Hornby, L.E.
3.81predicted, all instructors · 2,017 grades0 of 2 places taken. 20 of 20 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lec 5 MW 2:00pm-3:50pmWaitlist
Yuan, K.F. and Hornby, L.E.
3.81predicted, all instructors · 2,017 grades0 of 2 places taken. 20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lec 6 MW 12:00pm-1:50pmWaitlist
Kronsberg, S.E. and Hornby, L.E.
3.81predicted, all instructors · 2,017 grades0 of 2 places taken. 20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled -
not checked yet
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 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 6 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 · Sharrah, R.K. and Hornby, L.E. · 18 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 18 seats.
Lec 2 · Fast Dog, L. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 20 of 20.
Lec 3 · Wang, B.B. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 20 of 20.
Lec 4 · Severson, E. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 20 of 20.
Lec 5 · Yuan, K.F. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 20 of 20.
Lec 6 · Kronsberg, S.E. and Hornby, L.E. · 20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 20 of 20.
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.