LIT 90: Intro Creative Writ
University of California, Santa Cruz
Introduction to the culture and values of creative writing as an academic and artistic discipline. Introduces the practice of the writing life. Students write and/or revise weekly fictional, poetic or creative nonfiction experiments and discuss these experiments in two weekly peer workshops led by their teaching assistants. Students attend weekly lectures in which working writers read fiction or poetry, and hybrid creative forms, and answer questions about the writing life. Alternately, the instructor will give craft lectures and relevant writing prompts based on the readings. The visiting writers’ work and the other readings are used as inspiration for students’ own creative and critical reader responses. May be repeated for credit.
Average GPA: 3.70
Grade distribution records: 1,489 students across 19 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 298 | 20.0% |
| A | 692 | 46.5% |
| A- | 168 | 11.3% |
| B+ | 55 | 3.7% |
| B | 93 | 6.2% |
| B- | 28 | 1.9% |
| C+ | 12 | 0.8% |
| C | 27 | 1.8% |
| C- | 6 | 0.4% |
| D+ | 2 | 0.1% |
| D | 3 | 0.2% |
| D- | 1 | 0.1% |
| F | 23 | 1.5% |
| P | 48 | 3.2% |
| NP | 14 | 0.9% |
| W | 19 | 1.3% |
Based on 1,489 student grade records across 19 terms and 25 professors.
Instructors
- Jennifer Tseng 192 students, Average GPA 3.47
- Chacko Thomas Kuruvilla 184 students, Average GPA 3.86
- Thaïs Helene Miller 182 students, Average GPA 3.76
- Angie Sijun Lou 136 students, Average GPA 3.59
- Micah E Perks 86 students, Average GPA 3.52
- Ronaldo V. Wilson 86 students, Average GPA 3.76
- Kristen Elissa Nelson 65 students, Average GPA 3.79
- Jihoon Park 64 students, Average GPA 3.60
- Jose Antonio Villaran 63 students, Average GPA 3.59
- Nathan Xavier Osorio 55 students, Average GPA 3.62
- Matthew Polzin 46 students, Average GPA 3.84
- Conner Bassett 44 students, Average GPA 3.69
- Mia Tempestt Boykin 43 students, Average GPA 3.90
- James Jackson 26 students, Average GPA 3.78
- Nicholas James Whittington 25 students, Average GPA 4.00
- Juan E Poblete 23 students, Average GPA 4.00
- Kendall Grady 23 students, Average GPA 4.00
- Melissa Lynn Sanders-Self 23 students, Average GPA 3.86
- Gary E Young 22 students, Average GPA 3.99
- Kayla Nicole Krut 22 students, Average GPA 4.00
- Kiley Mclaughlin 22 students, Average GPA 3.62
- Melissa Deann Mack 22 students, Average GPA 3.81
- Grace Yun 21 students, Average GPA 3.85
- Madison Jarret Mccartha 21 students, Average GPA 3.64
- Maria Isabel Pachon 16 students, Average GPA 3.46