ENVIRON M30
Environmental Literature and Culture
(Same as English M30.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3, 3D, or 3DX. Introduction to core themes, questions, and methods within interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Examination of how different culture forms (e.g., fiction, journalism, poetry, visual art) represent environmental issues. Topics may include biodiversity, wilderness, food, urban ecologies, postcolonial ecologies, environmental justice, and climate change. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.63
- n = 281 · 4 terms · ± 0.032
- A range
- 72%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 10%
- 94% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 1.4%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
| Section | Status | Enrolled | Seat risk | Meets | Instructor | Predicted GPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lec 1 | Open |
40 of 60
67% full
|
fills | TR 12:30pm-1:45pm | Heise, U.K. | 3.63n=281 · this instructor |
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.
- 8722S
- 9923S
- 7423F
- 5325W
Grade distribution
- A+ 13 · 4.2%
- A 107 · 34.2%
- A- 83 · 26.5%
- B+ 52 · 16.6%
- B 11 · 3.5%
- B- 6 · 1.9%
- C+ 5 · 1.6%
- F 4 · 1.3%
- P 29 · 9.3%
- NP 2 · 0.6%
- I 1 · 0.3%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEISE, URSULA K | 3.63 | 3.63 | 281 | 4 | 72% |
“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
- 22S 3.59 n=76
- 23S 3.70 n=90
- 23F 3.50 n=64
- 25W 3.70 n=51