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Dibs Fall 2026

ENGL 11

Introduction to American Cultures

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: English Composition 3, English 4W or 4HW or 4WS. Exploration of question of what is meant by America, and hence what is meant by American culture and American studies. Addresses concepts of origins (real or imagined beginnings of cultural formations), identities (narratives of people and places), and media (creative process as manifest in aesthetic forms, artistic movements, and information systems). P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.67
n = 214 · 7 terms · ± 0.036
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
86% of those passed
D / F / W
0.9%
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
34 of 60
57% full
 seats likely TR 2:00pm-3:15pm McMillan, U.G.
3.61n=16 · this instructorsmall sample

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.

  • 3021F
  • 3922W
  • 3322F
  • 1623W
  • 4023F
  • 3124W
  • 3525W
Enrolment by term: 21F 30, 22W 39, 22F 33, 23W 16, 23F 40, 24W 31, 25W 35
Peak 40 Most recent 35 in 25W 7 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 12 · 5.4%
  • A 103 · 46.0%
  • A- 41 · 18.3%
  • B+ 30 · 13.4%
  • B 17 · 7.6%
  • B- 5 · 2.2%
  • C+ 4 · 1.8%
  • F 2 · 0.9%
  • P 6 · 2.7%
  • NP 1 · 0.4%
  • I 1 · 0.4%
  • NR 2 · 0.9%

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
SILVA, CRISTOBAL S 3.70 3.71 95 3 76%
GOYAL, YOGITA 3.70 3.72 39 1 77%
DECKER, JEFFREY LOUIS 3.55 3.51 33 1 67%
MAZZAFERRO, ALEXANDER M 3.69 3.70 31 1 71%
MCMILLAN, URI GERVASE 3.61 3.56 16 small sample 1 63%

“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