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LING 1

Introduction to Study of Language

5 units Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis Life Sciences

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 12 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.

Grades

3.64

Average grade awarded in LING 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

75%

of the 7,645 letter grades

D, F or W

2.1%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

6%

96% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 7,645 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.39 to 3.82.

Historical grades for SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 1,623 · 39.7%
  • A 1,014 · 24.8%
  • A- 454 · 11.1%
  • B+ 322 · 7.9%
  • B 261 · 6.4%
  • B- 144 · 3.5%
  • C+ 92 · 2.2%
  • C 68 · 1.7%
  • C- 39 · 1.0%
  • D+ 19 · 0.5%
  • D 19 · 0.5%
  • D- 8 · 0.2%
  • F 27 · 0.7%
  • P 270 of 4,388
  • NP 13 of 4,388
  • I 15 of 4,388

Percentages are of the 4,090 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).

How the non-letter outcomes are counted

They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA reviews ↗ 3.65 3.65 4,090 9 76% very light Waitlist, 57 of 60 places taken
RETT, JESSICA L reviews ↗ 3.65 3.65 1,036 3 77% heavy not teaching it
TORRENCE, WILLIAM HAROLD reviews ↗ 3.45 3.45 898 2 63% - not teaching it
KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ 3.71 3.71 511 1 80% - not teaching it
MOTTER, THOMAS CLARENCE reviews ↗ 3.77 3.77 480 1 84% very light not teaching it
TORRENCE, WILLIAM HAROLD, JR reviews ↗ 3.57 3.57 451 1 71% - not teaching it
FULLER, CORRINA reviews ↗ 3.80 3.81 233 1 85% - not teaching it
AZIZ, JAKE reviews ↗ 3.78 3.80 179 1 87% average not teaching it
Why Predicted is not the Raw average

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.

Reviews for LING 1

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 168 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.

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In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Summary for general undergraduates of what is known about human language; biological basis of language, scientific study of language and human cognition; uniqueness of human language, its structure, universality, its diversity; language in social and cultural setting; language in relation to other aspects of human inquiry and knowledge. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 13 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 496 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 246 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking LING 1 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Silvestri, G. and Egressy, J. · 580 of 580 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 205.

580 of 580 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 03:471 Oct 19:02 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 532 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 364. dibs had no hourly record before 9 Sep, which is the other 556 of 1088 plotted.580 of 580 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 19:02, 375 to 580. dibs read 168 of the 532 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 364 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 9 September at 16:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 556 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.