ENGL 11
Introduction to American Cultures
Grades
3.68
Average grade awarded in ENGL 11. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
75%
of the 246 letter grades
D, F or W
0.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
7 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 246 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 3.51 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 12 · 4.9%
- A 116 · 47.2%
- A- 57 · 23.2%
- B+ 33 · 13.4%
- B 17 · 6.9%
- B- 5 · 2.0%
- C+ 4 · 1.6%
- F 2 · 0.8%
- P 7 of 257
- NP 1 of 257
- I 1 of 257
- NR 2 of 257
Percentages are of the 246 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and no report (NR).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SILVA, CRISTOBAL S reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.73 | 127 | 4 | 80% | - | not teaching it |
| GOYAL, YOGITA reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.72 | 39 | 1 | 77% | light | not teaching it |
| DECKER, JEFFREY LOUIS reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.51 | 33 | 1 | 67% | - | not teaching it |
| MAZZAFERRO, ALEXANDER M reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.70 | 31 | 1 | 71% | light | not teaching it |
| MCMILLAN, URI GERVASE reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.56 | 16 · | 1 | 63% | 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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 4 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 10 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before ENGL 11. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 11 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 4 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; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: English Composition 3, English 4W or 4HW or 4WS. Exploration of question of what is meant by America, and hence what is meant by American culture and American studies. Addresses concepts of origins (real or imagined beginnings of cultural formations), identities (narratives of people and places), and media (creative process as manifest in aesthetic forms, artistic movements, and information systems). P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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