Hardest ENGL classes at UCR

Ranked by average GPA from official grade distributions. Only courses with at least 100 graded students.

ENGL 004: English Writing Average GPA 2.03, 20,698 students
ENGL 124B: Fem Novelstc Trad:20th Century Average GPA 2.67, 146 students
ENGL 128X: Toni Morrison Average GPA 2.73, 116 students
ENGL 01PA: Beginning Compositn: Intensive Average GPA 2.75, 2,143 students
ENGL 001A: Beginning Composition Average GPA 2.80, 28,296 students
ENGL 033: LITERACIES FOR MULTIMODAL CONTEXTS Average GPA 2.90, 261 students
ENGL 001B: Intermediate Composition Average GPA 2.91, 34,454 students
ENGL 179A: HISTORY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION Average GPA 2.92, 204 students
ENGL 140E: Autobiography and Memoir Average GPA 2.92, 104 students
ENGL 120A: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900 Average GPA 2.94, 304 students
ENGL 012S: INTRO TO SPECULATIVE FICTION Average GPA 2.97, 2,028 students
ENGL 166T: English Romanticism Studies Average GPA 3.01, 238 students
ENGL 012: SPECIAL TOPICS IN INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE Average GPA 3.01, 167 students
ENGL 110: NONFICTION Average GPA 3.01, 119 students
ENGL 001C: Applied Intrmtd Composition Average GPA 3.02, 24,924 students
ENGL 140: Autobiography and Memoir Average GPA 3.09, 277 students
ENGL 117B: Shakespeare: Comedy Average GPA 3.11, 227 students
ENGL 161A: English Lit-1660-1730 Average GPA 3.12, 103 students
ENGL 012B: Introduction to Fiction Average GPA 3.13, 468 students
ENGL 022: WRITING RED: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Average GPA 3.14, 317 students
ENGL 012M: Introduction to Literature Average GPA 3.14, 251 students
ENGL 179T: Studies in Science Fiction Average GPA 3.16, 384 students
ENGL 138B: Afr Am Lit Since Harlem Renais Average GPA 3.16, 206 students
ENGL 114: Rhetorical Studies Average GPA 3.16, 167 students
ENGL 137: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT Average GPA 3.18, 104 students
ENGL 020A: LITERATURES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Average GPA 3.19, 1,991 students
ENGL 136T: Studies in Latina/o Literature Average GPA 3.19, 407 students
ENGL 134: AMERICAN LITERATURE: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Average GPA 3.20, 339 students
ENGL 172B: Later Victorian Poetry,prose Average GPA 3.20, 136 students
ENGL 121: SPECIAL TOPICS IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Average GPA 3.21, 201 students
ENGL 117C: Shakespeare: Tragedy Average GPA 3.22, 248 students
ENGL 128F: Spenser Average GPA 3.22, 113 students
ENGL 139T: STUDIES IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Average GPA 3.23, 295 students
ENGL 136: Latina/o Literature Average GPA 3.23, 282 students
ENGL 117A: Shakespeare: History Average GPA 3.23, 202 students
ENGL 020B: INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES Average GPA 3.25, 2,079 students
ENGL 166B: Romantic Period Literature Average GPA 3.26, 330 students
ENGL 151C: STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Average GPA 3.26, 186 students
ENGL 139: Asian American Literature Average GPA 3.26, 185 students
ENGL 021: Intro to Asian American Lit Average GPA 3.27, 116 students
ENGL 020C: INTRODUCTION TO ALTERNATIVE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE Average GPA 3.32, 2,250 students
ENGL 101: CRITICAL THEORY Average GPA 3.33, 315 students
ENGL 128E: Chaucer Average GPA 3.35, 210 students
ENGL 127C: American Poetry: Ltr 20th-prst Average GPA 3.35, 206 students
ENGL 138T: Stds in African Amer Lit Average GPA 3.35, 193 students
ENGL 122: Queer Latinx Literature Average GPA 3.36, 107 students
ENGL 017: Shakespeare Average GPA 3.38, 334 students
ENGL 127B: American Poetry:erly-mid 20th Average GPA 3.38, 251 students
ENGL 154: Late Renais Lit:studies Average GPA 3.40, 215 students
ENGL 172T: Victorian Lit Studies Average GPA 3.41, 383 students
ENGL 127A: Poetry Before 1900 Average GPA 3.41, 335 students
ENGL 130: Am Lit 1620-1830 Average GPA 3.42, 498 students
ENGL 120T: STUDIES IN NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Average GPA 3.42, 426 students
ENGL 153: Early Renais Lit:studies Average GPA 3.42, 229 students
ENGL 102W: INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL METHODS Average GPA 3.43, 1,383 students
ENGL 131: Am Lit 1830-civ War Average GPA 3.43, 492 students
ENGL 126B: The American Novel: Since 1900 Average GPA 3.43, 132 students
ENGL 127SC: American Poetry: Ltr 20th-prst Average GPA 3.43, 100 students
ENGL 126A: The American Novel: 19th Cent Average GPA 3.44, 115 students
ENGL 122N: Queer Texts and Bodies Average GPA 3.47, 149 students
ENGL 012A: Introduction to Poetry Average GPA 3.48, 317 students
ENGL 012O: American Indian Literature Average GPA 3.48, 178 students
ENGL 142N: Politics of Visual Culture Average GPA 3.49, 288 students
ENGL 151B: Middl Engl Lit:later 14th Cent Average GPA 3.49, 167 students
ENGL 008: Oral Communication Average GPA 3.50, 1,114 students
ENGL 166A: Romantic Period Literature Average GPA 3.51, 107 students
ENGL 151T: Studies in Medieval Literature Average GPA 3.53, 171 students
ENGL 179D: Science Fiction on Film Average GPA 3.53, 132 students
ENGL 145K: African American Visual Cultur Average GPA 3.53, 107 students
ENGL 104: Film and Media Theory Average GPA 3.53, 100 students
ENGL 128: MORRISON Average GPA 3.55, 563 students
ENGL 103: Adv Composition Average GPA 3.55, 144 students
ENGL 128J: Austen Average GPA 3.56, 258 students
ENGL 138A: Afr Am Lit Thru Harlem Renais Average GPA 3.59, 268 students
ENGL 012R: Chicana & Chicano Literature Average GPA 3.59, 209 students
ENGL 122O: Queer Texts and Bodies Average GPA 3.59, 156 students
ENGL 023: African American Autobiography Average GPA 3.59, 140 students
ENGL 189: ENGLISH CAPSTONE SEMINAR Average GPA 3.60, 969 students
ENGL 117T: Topics in Shakespeare Average GPA 3.61, 593 students
ENGL 141: Medical Humanities Average GPA 3.61, 239 students
ENGL 147: Moby Dick Average GPA 3.61, 164 students
ENGL 128Q: Dickinson Average GPA 3.72, 129 students
ENGL 132: Am Lit Civ War-1914 Average GPA 3.73, 229 students
ENGL 142: Cultural Marx Average GPA 3.73, 157 students
ENGL 115: Public Humanities Average GPA 3.75, 106 students