ENGL 270
Issues and Developments in Critical Theory
Grades
3.93
Average grade awarded in ENGL 270. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
96%
of the 48 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 48 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 3.85 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 14.6%
- A 33 · 68.8%
- A- 6 · 12.5%
- B+ 1 · 2.1%
- B 1 · 2.1%
- I 4 of 56
- NR 4 of 56
Percentages are of the 48 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAKDISI, SAREE reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 19 · | 2 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| BEHDAD, ALI reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.90 | 10 · | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| RUSSELL, DAVID JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.97 | 10 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| KAUFMAN, ELEANOR K reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 4.00 | 9 · | 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.
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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.
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In Springs
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2023.
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
Seminar, three hours. Investigation of selected trends in critical theory. Topics may include continental philosophy, memory studies, feminist and queer studies, urban studies, environmental humanities, critical race studies, and postcolonialism. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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