ENGL 4W
Critical Reading and Writing
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
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 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 | Winter 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.
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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 ENGL 4W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 4W in Winter 2026 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 Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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