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Dibs Fall 2026

ENGL 10A

Literatures in English to 1700

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: English Composition 3 or 3H, English 4W or 4HW. Survey of major writers and genres, with emphasis on tools for literary analysis such as close reading, argumentation, historical and social context, and critical writing. Minimum of three papers (three to five pages each) or equivalent required. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.37
n = 701 · 8 terms · ± 0.020
A range
56%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
89% of those passed
D / F / W
3.4%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
59 of 120
49% full
 could fill TR 9:30am-10:45am Chism, C.N.
3.37n=701 · course average

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.

  • 7221F
  • 7722S
  • 9322F
  • 10823S
  • 11723F
  • 10924S
  • 7824F
  • 7525S
Enrolment by term: 21F 72, 22S 77, 22F 93, 23S 108, 23F 117, 24S 109, 24F 78, 25S 75
Peak 117 Most recent 75 in 25S 8 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 22 · 3.0%
  • A 226 · 31.0%
  • A- 146 · 20.0%
  • B+ 105 · 14.4%
  • B 88 · 12.1%
  • B- 40 · 5.5%
  • C+ 19 · 2.6%
  • C 22 · 3.0%
  • C- 10 · 1.4%
  • D+ 1 · 0.1%
  • D 3 · 0.4%
  • F 19 · 2.6%
  • P 16 · 2.2%
  • NP 2 · 0.3%
  • I 9 · 1.2%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

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
MCEACHERN, CLAIRE 3.42 3.42 254 3 64%
WEAVER, ERICA 3.49 3.50 221 2 65%
FISHER, MATTHEW N 3.11 3.09 147 2 31%
SHUGER, DEBORA K 3.35 3.35 79 1 54%

“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