Hardest ENG classes at Cal Poly Pomona
Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.
- ENG 1100M: Stretch Composition I Average GPA 2.53, 667 students
- ENG 1100: Stretch Composition I Average GPA 2.59, 4,656 students
- ENG 1101: Stretch Composition Ii Average GPA 2.82, 3,639 students
- ENG 1103M: First Year Composition Average GPA 2.83, 1,560 students
- ENG 1101M: Stretch Composition Ii Average GPA 2.85, 473 students
- ENG 2700: The Bible as Literature Average GPA 2.91, 103 students
- ENG 1103: First Year Composition Average GPA 3.00, 13,545 students
- ENG 3000: Intro to Literary Studies Average GPA 3.00, 704 students
- ENG 4720: The Novel in the Modern World Average GPA 3.02, 121 students
- ENG 2105: Written Reasoning Average GPA 3.04, 6,571 students
- ENG 2500: Introduction to Shakespeare Average GPA 3.06, 746 students
- ENG 2331: Intro U.s. Latino/a Literature Average GPA 3.06, 112 students
- ENG 3212: Language Acquisition Average GPA 3.08, 655 students
- ENG 3011: Literature, Power, and Politic Average GPA 3.10, 100 students
- ENG 2200: Intro to English Linguistics Average GPA 3.13, 973 students
- ENG 4730: Colonial and Postcolonial Lit Average GPA 3.13, 152 students
- ENG 4331: Hemispheric American Lit Average GPA 3.13, 119 students
- ENG 3210: The Grammar of Modern English Average GPA 3.18, 523 students
- ENG 1000: English and Mod Lang Fye Average GPA 3.18, 469 students
- ENG 2300: American Literature to 1865 Average GPA 3.18, 219 students
- ENG 2885: Introduction to Fiction Average GPA 3.18, 214 students
- ENG 2332: Lit & the African Amrcn Exprnc Average GPA 3.19, 226 students
- ENG 2710: World Literature I Average GPA 3.21, 296 students
- ENG 2330: Intro to Multicultural Us Lit Average GPA 3.22, 605 students
- ENG 2520: British Literature Ii Average GPA 3.22, 314 students
- ENG 3010: Literary Theory & Cultural Std Average GPA 3.28, 454 students
- ENG 2320: American Literature Since 1865 Average GPA 3.28, 269 students
- ENG 4880: Modernism and Postmodernism Average GPA 3.28, 206 students
- ENG 4512: British Victorian Age Average GPA 3.29, 139 students
- ENG 3211: Structure of Language Average GPA 3.33, 131 students
- ENG 3150: Advanced Expository Writing Average GPA 3.34, 641 students
- ENG 2510: British Literature I Average GPA 3.35, 185 students
- ENG 2801: Adolescent Literature Average GPA 3.35, 163 students
- ENG 4511: British Romanticism Average GPA 3.35, 151 students
- ENG 3110: Intro to Rhetorical Theory Average GPA 3.36, 351 students
- ENG 4150: Multimedia Practicum Average GPA 3.37, 288 students
- ENG 2720: World Literature Ii Average GPA 3.37, 255 students
- ENG 4332: African American Literature Average GPA 3.37, 142 students
- ENG 2880: Science Fiction Average GPA 3.39, 256 students
- ENG 2884: Contemporary Literature Average GPA 3.39, 216 students
- ENG 4882: Myth as Literature Average GPA 3.41, 248 students
- ENG 4740: Chinese Civ and Culture Average GPA 3.42, 183 students
- ENG 4503: Shakespeare Before 1600 Average GPA 3.43, 341 students
- ENG 4220: Sociolinguistics Average GPA 3.43, 204 students
- ENG 4881: Intersectionality & Literature Average GPA 3.43, 151 students
- ENG 3520: Harry Potter as Lit and Cltre Average GPA 3.44, 389 students
- ENG 3151: Writing for the Professions Average GPA 3.45, 676 students
- ENG 3153: Theory to Pract in Student Lit Average GPA 3.45, 233 students
- ENG 4504: Shakespeare After 1600 Average GPA 3.45, 185 students
- ENG 4630: English Edu Assessment Seminar Average GPA 3.45, 152 students
- ENG 2800: Introduction to Folklore Average GPA 3.46, 137 students
- ENG 4500: Chaucer Average GPA 3.47, 198 students
- ENG 3152: Lit, Lang, and Cultural Pract Average GPA 3.49, 165 students
- ENG 4311: American Poetic Traditions Average GPA 3.50, 116 students
- ENG 4990: Spec Topic for Ud Students Average GPA 3.53, 140 students
- ENG 3800: Children's Literature Average GPA 3.58, 331 students
- ENG 5010: Intro Grad Literary Research Average GPA 3.59, 126 students
- ENG 5368: Multicultural Lit in the U.s. Average GPA 3.60, 110 students
- ENG 4610: Senior Symposium Average GPA 3.61, 383 students
- ENG 2803: Fantasy and the Fantastic Average GPA 3.67, 203 students
- ENG 5110: Thry and Prct of Mod Rhetoric Average GPA 3.72, 115 students
- ENG 5130: Teaching Writing Average GPA 3.74, 175 students
- ENG 5236: Sociolinguistics Average GPA 3.74, 121 students
- ENG 4230: Teaching English Abroad Average GPA 3.79, 153 students
- ENG 3120: Professional Editing Average GPA 3.84, 153 students
- ENG 2804: Children's Literature Average GPA 3.84, 147 students
See also: Easiest classes, Cal Poly Pomona course catalog, ENG course catalog.