ENGL 85
American Novel
Grades
3.79
Average grade awarded in ENGL 85. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
85%
of the 365 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
10 of 10 students passed
The registrar's own records: 365 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.51 to 3.93.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 36 · 9.9%
- A 197 · 54.0%
- A- 78 · 21.4%
- B+ 29 · 7.9%
- B 14 · 3.8%
- B- 7 · 1.9%
- C 3 · 0.8%
- F 1 · 0.3%
- P 10 of 376
- I 1 of 376
Percentages are of the 365 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOTT, CHRISTOPHER M reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 365 | 5 | 85% | average | 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.
What the work looks like
- 2 papers, said by 6 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 presentation, said by 3 reviewers
Read from 20 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 1 course long before ENGL 85. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 85 in Summer Session C 2026 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, 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.
From the registrar's catalog
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.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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