ENGL 87
Topics in American Cultures: Gothic in U.S. Literature and Culture
Grades
3.87
Average grade awarded in ENGL 87. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
93%
of the 27 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: 27 grades over 2 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 2 terms ran 3.75 to 3.98.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 8 · 29.6%
- A 14 · 51.9%
- A- 3 · 11.1%
- B- 2 · 7.4%
Percentages are of the 27 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STERN, ALEXANDRA MINNA reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.98 | 14 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| FOOTE, REBECCA ELISE reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.75 | 13 · | 1 | 85% | very light | 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.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 2 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before ENGL 87. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 87 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 2 of the last 3 Falls. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2024.
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. Requisites: English Composition 3, English 4W or 4HW or 4WS, 11. Content varies. Introductory study of diverse peoples, histories, and ideas of America. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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