ENGL 137B
Creative Writing: Advanced Short Story
Seminar.
Winter 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in ENGL 137B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
98%
of the 120 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: 120 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 3.81 to 4.00.
Historical grades for WANG, XUAN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 8.3%
- A 10 · 83.3%
- A- 1 · 8.3%
Percentages are of the 12 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D'AGUIAR, FREDERICK M reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 48 | 4 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| SIMPSON, MONA ELIZABETH reviews ↗ | 3.97 | 4.00 | 24 | 2 | 100% | light | not teaching it |
| HUNEVEN, MICHELLE REBECCA reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.92 | 23 | 2 | 96% | light | not teaching it |
| TORRES, JUSTIN JOHN reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 4.00 | 13 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| WANG, XUAN reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.98 | 12 · | 1 | 100% | - | Closed |
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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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before ENGL 137B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGL 137B in Winter 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, ENGCOMP 2I, and ENGL 4HW, 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
(Formerly numbered 137.) Seminar, three or four hours. Enforced Requisites: courses 4HW or 4W or 20 or 20W, English Composition 3. Further reading in contemporary short stories and exercises in fiction writing, with emphasis on longer stories. Some classroom discussion based on assigned reading, but most on student work. Enrollment in more than one section per term not permitted. May be repeated for maximum of 15 units. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Sem 1 R 12:00pm-2:50pmClosed3.94predicted, this instructor · 12 grades ·
12 of 12 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 13 a term over 7 terms, summer excluded, most recently 12 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ENGL 137B was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Sem 1 · Wang, X. · 12 of 12 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 12 of 12.
How readings and alerts work
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Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
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