Brian Edward Burns (Instructor) - Grade Details
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Brian Edward Burns - All Courses
Average Grade - 3.331
Median Grade - 3.5
Latest grades from Spring 2024
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| Course Number | Grade Info | Number of Students | Latest Grade Data | Breakdown | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG 129 | Average Grade - 2.917 Median Grade - 3.0 |
43 | Fall 2011 | |||
| IAH 221C | Average Grade - 3.101 Median Grade - 3.5 |
923 | Spring 2019 | |||
| ENG 329 | Average Grade - 3.265 Median Grade - 3.5 |
34 | Fall 2012 | |||
| ENG 362 | Average Grade - 3.410 Median Grade - 3.5 |
89 | Spring 2017 | |||
| ENG 280 | Average Grade - 3.383 Median Grade - 3.5 |
162 | Spring 2019 | |||
| ENG 355 | Average Grade - 3.500 Median Grade - 3.5 |
22 | Fall 2015 | |||
| ENG 140 | Average Grade - 3.239 Median Grade - 3.5 |
100 | Spring 2023 | |||
| IAH 207 | Average Grade - 3.386 Median Grade - 4.0 |
2192 | Fall 2022 | |||
| ENG 130 | Average Grade - 3.487 Median Grade - 3.5 |
39 | Fall 2019 | |||
| IAH 221B | Average Grade - 3.348 Median Grade - 3.5 |
427 | Spring 2024 | |||
| ENG 342 | Average Grade - 3.412 Median Grade - 4.0 |
17 | Fall 2023 | |||
| IAH 231B | Average Grade - 3.492 Median Grade - 4.0 |
451 | Fall 2023 | |||
| ENG 204 | Average Grade - 3.197 Median Grade - 3.0 |
33 | Spring 2012 | |||
| ENG 308 | Average Grade - 3.308 Median Grade - 3.5 |
65 | Spring 2013 | |||
| ENG 320B | Average Grade - 3.321 Median Grade - 3.5 |
28 | Spring 2015 | |||
| ENG 142 | Average Grade - 3.337 Median Grade - 3.5 |
138 | Spring 2024 | |||
| ENG 353 | Average Grade - 3.343 Median Grade - 3.5 |
35 | Spring 2016 | |||
| IAH 241B | Average Grade - 3.103 Median Grade - 3.5 |
29 | Spring 2016 | |||
| IAH 211C | Average Grade - 2.887 Median Grade - 3.0 |
85 | Spring 2017 | |||
| ENG 210 | Average Grade - 3.386 Median Grade - 3.5 |
24 | Spring 2020 | |||
| ENG 368 | Average Grade - 3.816 Median Grade - 4.0 |
19 | Spring 2022 | |||
| IAH 231A | Average Grade - 3.438 Median Grade - 4.0 |
489 | Spring 2022 | |||
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ENG 129 - Introduction to Reading Poetry
Basics of reading and interpreting poetry in English, with an emphasis on poetic forms and developing a critical vocabulary. Poetry from a range of time periods and national literatures.
Average Grade - 2.917
Median Grade - 3.0
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ENG 130 - Film and Society
Ways of viewing film in its cultural, social, and historical context. Basic critical approaches to film or film genres, focused on a particular topic.
Average Grade - 3.487
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 140 - Literature and Society
Ways of reading literature in its cultural, social, and historical contexts. Literature in relation to other media and cultural forms. Topics vary.
Average Grade - 3.239
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 142 - Introduction to Popular Literary Genres
Popular literary genres such as science fiction, romance, detective novels, gothic, horror, and spy thrillers, including film and other non-print media. Topics vary.
Average Grade - 3.337
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 204 - Topics in North American Literatures
Selected texts from North American literatures drawn from a variety of historical periods, genres, and cultures, reflecting the diversity of North American experiences.
Average Grade - 3.197
Median Grade - 3.0
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ENG 210 - Introduction to Literary Studies
Writing-intensive course in close reading, with substantial attention to poetry, drama, and narrative prose, drawing broadly on texts taken from more than one century and more than one national literature.
Average Grade - 3.386
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 280 - Introduction to Literary Theories
Literary and critical theory. How literature is constituted and how representation works. Assumptions behind and limits of a range of theoretical approaches. Application of theory to literary texts.
Average Grade - 3.383
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 308 - Readings in Literature for Young Adults
Extensive readings across a range of genres of literature for young adults, including realistic and historical fiction, fantasy, myth and legend.
Average Grade - 3.308
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 320B - Methodologies of Literary History: Region, School, or Movement
Examination of literary works in relation to historical change, seen through the lens of geographical networks and/or aesthetic alliances. Reflection on the theories and practices of literary history.
Average Grade - 3.321
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 329 - Readings in Poetry and Poetics
Extensive reading in poetry in English from a range of centuries and traditions. Forms of poetry within specific social and historical circumstances. Aesthetics of language and fundamentals of poetics.
Average Grade - 3.265
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 342 - Readings in Popular Literary Genres
Extensive reading within a particular genre of popular literature such as science fiction, crime fiction or Gothic, with possible attention to media other than print.
Average Grade - 3.412
Median Grade - 4.0
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ENG 353 - Readings in Women Writers
Extensive reading in texts by women, focused within a particular national tradition or period or within a particular genre. Critical responses to these texts. Feminist approaches to literature.
Average Grade - 3.343
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 355 - Readings in Sexuality and Literature
Extensive reading in literature drawing on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer perspectives.
Average Grade - 3.500
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 362 - Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature (W)
Extensive readings and research in modernist, postmodernist, and recent literary texts from multiple genres and national traditions.
Average Grade - 3.410
Median Grade - 3.5
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ENG 368 - Studies in Medieval/Early Modern Literature (W)
Extensive reading and research in literary texts in English in multiple genres. Focused on one or more periods from ca. 650 to 1660.
Average Grade - 3.816
Median Grade - 4.0
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IAH 207 - Literatures, Cultures, Identities (I)
Explorations in how literature reflects, creates, and challenges cultural and individual identities. Approaches and materials from literature, philosophy, the arts, religion, and history. Selected themes and issues, variable by term.
Average Grade - 3.386
Median Grade - 4.0
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IAH 211C - Area Studies and Multicultural Civilizations: The Americas (D)
Arts and humanities of the Americas: literature, visual arts, music, religion and philosophy presented in historical context. Selected regions, cultures, and themes. Variable by term.
Average Grade - 2.887
Median Grade - 3.0
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IAH 221B - Great Ages: The Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (I)
Arts and humanities of the medieval and early modern worlds: literature, visual arts, music, religion and philosophy presented in historical context. Selected themes. Variable by term.
Average Grade - 3.348
Median Grade - 3.5
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IAH 221C - Great Ages: The Modern World (I)
Arts and humanities of the modern world, examined through the frame of urban and intellectual life. Literature, visual arts, music, religion and philosophy presented in historical context. Selected regions and themes. Variable by term.
Average Grade - 3.101
Median Grade - 3.5
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IAH 231A - Themes and Issues: Human Values and the Arts and Humanities (D)
Values of individualism, responsibility, love, community, and rationality. Students are introduced to diverse methods and materials from the arts and humanities.
Average Grade - 3.438
Median Grade - 4.0
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IAH 231B - Themes and Issues: Moral Issues and the Arts and Humanities (D)
Human conflict and moral dilemmas, addressed through diverse methods and materials from the arts and humanities.
Average Grade - 3.492
Median Grade - 4.0
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IAH 241B - Creative Arts and Humanities: Philosophy in Literature (D)
Philosophy and literature, relationships to each other and to societies in which they were produced. Themes such as the meaning of life, God and the problem of evil, and the nature of knowledge. Authors such as Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Wright, and Atwood examined from a variety of perspectives.
Average Grade - 3.103
Median Grade - 3.5
Latest grades from Spring 2016
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