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WL ARTS 51W

Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Combination of approaches of discourse analysis and scientific method to understand how people make sense of other people's stories of aliens, psychics, and ghosts. Exploration of how people come to believe what they do about human life, life after death, and other-than-human life. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.68
n = 240 · 5 terms · ± 0.034
A range
80%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
2.9%
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.

  • 7622F
  • 7823F
  • 4024F
Enrolment by term: 22F 76, 23F 78, 24F 40
Peak 78 Most recent 40 in 24F 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 79 · 32.4%
  • A 109 · 44.7%
  • A- 4 · 1.6%
  • B+ 5 · 2.0%
  • B 23 · 9.4%
  • B- 3 · 1.2%
  • C 10 · 4.1%
  • F 7 · 2.9%
  • P 4 · 1.6%

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
SHORTER, DAVID DELGADO 3.67 3.67 240 5 80%
GATES, WESLEIGH 3.65 3.64 28 1 79%

“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