ENGL 124: MODERN SHORT STORY
University of California, Santa Barbara
Short stories are quick bursts of storytelling, which, much like a short fi lm or a music video, capture an intense burst of feeling, a fleeting mood, a scene of transformation. Or else, you might say they operate like slow m otion: they arrest a moment or slice of time, they attend to its nuances an d the forces that buffer it, and they ask us to attend to them with extra c are. Short stories often show how moments that might appear very ordinary to most of us can in fact be momentous, utterly transformative, for somebod y. In this, for modern, humdrum, everyday lives, they can provide a kind o f modernist sublime. In this class, we will read a cross-section of short s tories, from classic to contemporary, from America and the world.
Average GPA: 3.53
Grade distribution records: 395 students across 12 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 7 | 1.8% |
| A | 148 | 37.5% |
| A- | 130 | 32.9% |
| B+ | 55 | 13.9% |
| B | 23 | 5.8% |
| B- | 8 | 2.0% |
| C+ | 5 | 1.3% |
| C | 3 | 0.8% |
| C- | 1 | 0.3% |
| D | 1 | 0.3% |
| F | 14 | 3.5% |
Based on 395 student grade records across 12 terms and 5 professors.
Instructors
- Duffy A E 241 students, Average GPA 3.66
- Star S J 63 students, Average GPA 3.43
- Allaback S L 42 students, Average GPA 3.69
- Pecchenino D 30 students, Average GPA 2.81
- Epstein J B 19 students, Average GPA 2.95