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Dibs Fall 2026

COM LIT 4CW

Literature and Writing: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century

Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1C or 2CW. Study and discussion of selected texts from Age of Enlightenment to 20th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Goethe, M. Shelley, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kafka, Joyce, Beckett, L. Hughes, and Garcia Marquez. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.56
n = 39 · 2 terms · ± 0.076
A range
67%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
5.1%
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.

  • 2023W
  • 2023S
Enrolment by term: 23W 20, 23S 20
Peak 20 Most recent 20 in 23S 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A 18 · 45.0%
  • A- 8 · 20.0%
  • B+ 8 · 20.0%
  • B- 3 · 7.5%
  • D+ 1 · 2.5%
  • D- 1 · 2.5%
  • I 1 · 2.5%

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
ROTHBERG, MICHAEL 3.55 3.54 39 2 67%

“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