ENGL 10A
Literatures in English to 1700
Grades
3.34
Average grade awarded in ENGL 10A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
53%
of the 786 letter grades
D, F or W
3.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
16 of 18 students passed
The registrar's own records: 786 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.01 to 3.71.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 22 · 2.8%
- A 236 · 30.0%
- A- 162 · 20.6%
- B+ 121 · 15.4%
- B 113 · 14.4%
- B- 52 · 6.6%
- C+ 21 · 2.7%
- C 24 · 3.1%
- C- 10 · 1.3%
- D+ 1 · 0.1%
- D 3 · 0.4%
- F 21 · 2.7%
- P 16 of 814
- NP 2 of 814
- I 9 of 814
- DR 1 of 814
Percentages are of the 786 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCEACHERN, CLAIRE reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.42 | 254 | 3 | 64% | heavy | not teaching it |
| FISHER, MATTHEW N reviews ↗ | 3.13 | 3.11 | 232 | 3 | 31% | heavy | not teaching it |
| WEAVER, ERICA reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.50 | 221 | 2 | 65% | - | not teaching it |
| SHUGER, DEBORA K reviews ↗ | 3.35 | 3.35 | 79 | 1 | 54% | heavy | 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.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 172 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before ENGL 10A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 10A in Winter 2027 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
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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, one hour. Enforced requisites: English Composition 3 or 3H, English 4W or 4HW. Survey of major writers and genres, with emphasis on tools for literary analysis such as close reading, argumentation, historical and social context, and critical writing. Minimum of three papers (three to five pages each) or equivalent required. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
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