Hardest LIT classes at UCSC

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

  1. LIT 155A: Cinema&Subjectivity Average GPA 3.08, 111 students
  2. LIT 149J: The Good Life Average GPA 3.16, 134 students
  3. LIT 111D: Shakespeare Average GPA 3.22, 668 students
  4. LIT 110A: British Canon, Part I Average GPA 3.22, 116 students
  5. LIT 155L: Vampire Film Average GPA 3.23, 126 students
  6. LIT 61M: Classical Myth Average GPA 3.24, 599 students
  7. LIT 61H: Intro Film Analysis Average GPA 3.27, 381 students
  8. LIT 155H: The Horror Film Average GPA 3.27, 275 students
  9. LIT 61K: Intro to Fairy Tale Average GPA 3.28, 756 students
  10. LIT 126F: Speculative Fiction Average GPA 3.33, 254 students
  11. LIT 80T: Literature & Magic Average GPA 3.35, 875 students
  12. LIT 189B: El Siglo XIX Average GPA 3.35, 118 students
  13. LIT 81A: Homer's Odyssey Average GPA 3.37, 498 students
  14. LIT 136B: Beat Lit Average GPA 3.38, 120 students
  15. LIT 164D: Jewish Ethnic/Urban Average GPA 3.38, 105 students
  16. LIT 80I: American Culture Average GPA 3.39, 209 students
  17. LIT 81I: Engineering California Average GPA 3.40, 1,539 students
  18. LIT 127J: Journalist Average GPA 3.41, 139 students
  19. LIT 154B: Literature & the Arts Average GPA 3.43, 130 students
  20. LIT 102: Translation Theory Average GPA 3.45, 823 students
  21. LIT 160F: Topic Cultral Study Average GPA 3.45, 200 students
  22. LIT 101: Theory & Interpretn Average GPA 3.46, 1,073 students
  23. LIT 1: Literary Interpret Average GPA 3.46, 834 students
  24. LIT 114E: Dante's Inferno Average GPA 3.46, 122 students
  25. LIT 189A: Conquista/Sor Juana Average GPA 3.47, 179 students
  26. LIT 81H: Pandemic in Literature Average GPA 3.47, 100 students
  27. LIT 61W: Writing & Research Average GPA 3.48, 136 students
  28. LIT 190U: Topics in Theory Average GPA 3.48, 102 students
  29. LIT 121A: Heroic Epic Average GPA 3.49, 105 students
  30. LIT 149D: Modern Literature Average GPA 3.50, 162 students
  31. LIT 61J: Jewish Lit/Culture Average GPA 3.52, 318 students
  32. LIT 61U: Speculative Fiction Average GPA 3.52, 234 students
  33. LIT 160G: Literary Theory Average GPA 3.52, 113 students
  34. LIT 80H: Politics of Fashion Average GPA 3.54, 840 students
  35. LIT 130A: Ancient Literature Average GPA 3.55, 212 students
  36. LIT 114C: Dante's Divine Comedy Average GPA 3.57, 364 students
  37. LIT 61X: Tragedy Average GPA 3.57, 190 students
  38. LIT 61F: Reading Fiction Average GPA 3.58, 468 students
  39. LIT 116G: Victorian Monsters Average GPA 3.59, 249 students
  40. LIT 80Y: Harry Potter Average GPA 3.62, 1,176 students
  41. LIT 149H: The Future Average GPA 3.64, 165 students
  42. LIT 61P: Reading Poetry Average GPA 3.65, 714 students
  43. LIT 126H: AI and Humans Average GPA 3.66, 161 students
  44. LIT 167E: Vampire in Pop Cltr Average GPA 3.66, 126 students
  45. LIT 116C: AncientMyth/ModPoet Average GPA 3.66, 102 students
  46. LIT 61N: Children's Lit Average GPA 3.68, 193 students
  47. LIT 117A: Old Iranian Lit Average GPA 3.68, 103 students
  48. LIT 160K: Race, Labor, Migration Average GPA 3.69, 153 students
  49. LIT 90: Intro Creative Writ Average GPA 3.70, 1,489 students
  50. LIT 179C: Methods & Materials Average GPA 3.74, 236 students
  51. LIT 190V: Fiction Senior Sem Average GPA 3.74, 143 students
  52. LIT 91A: Intermed Fiction/Prose Average GPA 3.75, 364 students
  53. LIT 120F: Modern Poetry Average GPA 3.75, 289 students
  54. LIT 91B: Inter Poetry Writing Average GPA 3.78, 320 students
  55. LIT 179A: Adv Writing-Fiction Average GPA 3.85, 318 students
  56. LIT 179B: Adv Writing-Poetry Average GPA 3.90, 182 students
  57. LIT 190W: Poetry Senior Sem Average GPA 3.93, 100 students
  58. LIT 99F: Tutorial Average GPA 4.00, 107 students

See also: Easiest classes, UCSC course catalog, LIT course catalog.

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