Introduction to Creative Writing

Grades

3.94

Average grade awarded in ENGL 20W. Not a rating: this is what the grades were. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.021.

The registrar's own records: 827 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.85 to 4.00.

By instructor

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for ENGL 20W ↗

What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before ENGL 20W. 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

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 01 Sep 23:40: the oldest of these 6 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 MW 12:00pm-1:50pm

  Cancelled

  No instructors

  3.93

  course average · 827 grades

  no enrollment count published - i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  not checked yet
• Lec 4 TR 4:00pm-5:15pm

  Closed by the department

  D'Aguiar, F.M.

  3.93

  course average · 827 grades

  50 enrolled no history i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  needs consent needs consent: Department Consent: restrictions read 2 days ago, old enough that alerts on it are held

  4 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)

  • Dis 4A

    F 10:00am-10:50am · Haines Hall A82

    Closed by the department

    20 enrolled

  • Dis 4B

    F 10:00am-10:50am · Mathematical Sciences 5233

    Closed by the department

    no enrollment count published

  • Dis 4C

    F 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall A82

    Closed by the department

    20 enrolled

  • Dis 4D

    F 11:00am-11:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A68

    Closed by the department

    10 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 17 and 23 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 19 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.