ENGL 20W
Introduction to Creative Writing
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Grades
3.94
Average grade awarded in ENGL 20W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
96%
of the 827 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 827 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 3.85 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 154 · 18.6%
- A 597 · 72.2%
- A- 44 · 5.3%
- B+ 11 · 1.3%
- B 10 · 1.2%
- B- 6 · 0.7%
- C+ 1 · 0.1%
- C 2 · 0.2%
- F 2 · 0.2%
- P 1 of 831
- I 3 of 831
Percentages are of the 827 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOYAL, YOGITA reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 373 | 8 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
| MCEACHERN, CLAIRE reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 362 | 7 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
| HORNBY, LOUISE E J reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.92 | 71 | 2 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| BOX, ANADAIOS reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 3.96 | 21 | 1 | 100% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 papers, 2 mentions in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 6 reviews; source checked 6 days 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 2 courses long before ENGL 20W. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 20W 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; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement, English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 20. Designed to introduce fundamentals of creative writing and writing workshop experience. Emphasis on poetry, fiction, drama, or creative nonfiction depending on wishes of instructor(s) during any given term. Readings from assigned texts, weekly writing assignments (multiple drafts and revisions), and final portfolio required. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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