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Dibs Fall 2026

COM LIT 1B

World Literature: Middle Ages to 17th Century

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization as it grapples with its past and with other civilizations. Examination of works such as Dante's Divine Comedy, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Shakespeare's King Lear, and Sor Juana's Mexican poetry. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.58
n = 61 · 1 term · ± 0.064
A range
69%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.6%
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.

  • 6322S
Enrolment by term: 22S 63
Peak 63 Most recent 63 in 22S 1 term on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 15 · 23.8%
  • A 17 · 27.0%
  • A- 10 · 15.9%
  • B+ 8 · 12.7%
  • B 4 · 6.3%
  • B- 3 · 4.8%
  • C 3 · 4.8%
  • F 1 · 1.6%
  • P 2 · 3.2%

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
KRISTAL, EFRAIN 3.57 3.57 61 1 69%

“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