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Dibs Fall 2026

ENGL 85

American Novel

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to English majors or students with credit for any courses in 170 series. Development, with emphasis on form, of American novel from its beginning to present day. Includes works of such novelists as Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.77
n = 288 · 4 terms · ± 0.032
A range
84%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.3%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
80 of 94
85% full
 could fill TR 12:30pm-1:45pm Mott, C.M.
3.78n=288 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 7421F
  • 7622F
  • 7224W
  • 7724F
Enrolment by term: 21F 74, 22F 76, 24W 72, 24F 77
Peak 77 Most recent 77 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 26 · 8.7%
  • A 154 · 51.5%
  • A- 62 · 20.7%
  • B+ 25 · 8.4%
  • B 12 · 4.0%
  • B- 5 · 1.7%
  • C 3 · 1.0%
  • F 1 · 0.3%
  • P 10 · 3.3%
  • I 1 · 0.3%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
MOTT, CHRISTOPHER M 3.78 3.78 288 4 84%

“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.

By term