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Dibs Fall 2026

COM LIT 1E

Social Media and Storytelling: Comparing Cultures

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of ways in which social media construct increasingly diverse and decentered narratives--with which we make localized sense of world. Equal emphasis on textual, visual, and sonic networks in arts, politics, and health care. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.79
n = 239 · 3 terms · ± 0.035
A range
87%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.7%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

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.

  • 19222W
Enrolment by term: 22W 192
Peak 192 Most recent 192 in 22W 1 term on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 68 · 27.3%
  • A 118 · 47.4%
  • A- 23 · 9.2%
  • B+ 13 · 5.2%
  • B 6 · 2.4%
  • B- 2 · 0.8%
  • C+ 1 · 0.4%
  • C 3 · 1.2%
  • C- 1 · 0.4%
  • D- 1 · 0.4%
  • F 3 · 1.2%
  • P 8 · 3.2%
  • I 2 · 0.8%

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
MACFADYEN, DAVID W 3.79 3.79 239 3 87%

“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