LING 119A
Applied Phonology
Grades
3.22
Average grade awarded in LING 119A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
54%
of the 431 letter grades
D, F or W
7.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
6%
72% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 431 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 2.94 to 3.53.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 119 · 27.6%
- A 74 · 17.2%
- A- 39 · 9.0%
- B+ 42 · 9.7%
- B 36 · 8.4%
- B- 29 · 6.7%
- C+ 15 · 3.5%
- C 31 · 7.2%
- C- 16 · 3.7%
- D+ 10 · 2.3%
- D 6 · 1.4%
- D- 5 · 1.2%
- F 9 · 2.1%
- P 21 of 461
- NP 8 of 461
- I 1 of 461
Percentages are of the 431 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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, ELISE A reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.31 | 153 | 4 | 59% | average | not teaching it |
| ZUKOFF, SAM reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.43 | 111 | 2 | 67% | average | not teaching it |
| CHO, SYLVIA reviews ↗ | 3.00 | 2.95 | 76 | 1 | 37% | - | not teaching it |
| MOTTER, THOMAS CLARENCE reviews ↗ | 3.09 | 3.06 | 71 | 1 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 2.94 | 20 | 1 | 40% | - | 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.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 7 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 7 mentions in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 7 mentions in past reviews
Based on 28 reviews; source checked 7 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before LING 119A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LING 119A in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 20, and 102 or 103. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 120A. Sound structures and sound patterns in world’s languages. Rules, rule ordering, features, syllable, and higher structure. Comparison of sound patterns of different languages. Tools of phonology as applicable to other fields. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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