LING 130
Language Development
Grades
3.35
Average grade awarded in LING 130. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
54%
of the 185 letter grades
D, F or W
3.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
5 of 5 students passed
The registrar's own records: 185 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.30 to 3.40.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 29 · 15.7%
- A 43 · 23.2%
- A- 27 · 14.6%
- B+ 29 · 15.7%
- B 20 · 10.8%
- B- 15 · 8.1%
- C+ 9 · 4.9%
- C 4 · 2.2%
- C- 3 · 1.6%
- D+ 2 · 1.1%
- F 4 · 2.2%
- P 5 of 191
- I 1 of 191
Percentages are of the 185 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOCCIONI, NICOLETTA reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.38 | 122 | 4 | 58% | average | not teaching it |
| MOTTER, THOMAS CLARENCE reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.31 | 63 | 2 | 44% | light | 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.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before LING 130. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LING 130 in Summer Session C 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). Requisites: courses 20, 119A or 120A, 119B or 120B. Survey of research and theoretical perspectives in language development in children. Discussion and examination of child language data from English and other languages. Emphasis on universals of language development. Topics include infant speech perception and production, development of phonology, morphology, syntax, and word meaning. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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