LING 165B
Syntax II
Grades
3.26
Average grade awarded in LING 165B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
55%
of the 448 letter grades
D, F or W
7.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
85% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 448 grades over 15 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 15 terms ran 2.12 to 3.68.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 91 · 20.3%
- A 98 · 21.9%
- A- 56 · 12.5%
- B+ 45 · 10.0%
- B 52 · 11.6%
- B- 29 · 6.5%
- C+ 24 · 5.4%
- C 13 · 2.9%
- C- 10 · 2.2%
- D+ 1 · 0.2%
- D 11 · 2.5%
- D- 3 · 0.7%
- F 15 · 3.3%
- P 17 of 472
- NP 3 of 472
- I 2 of 472
- DR 2 of 472
Percentages are of the 448 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOCCIONI, NICOLETTA reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.14 | 101 | 4 | 46% | average | not teaching it |
| YUAN, MICHELLE reviews ↗ | 3.35 | 3.37 | 81 | 2 | 58% | very light | not teaching it |
| SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.12 | 80 | 2 | 46% | very light | not teaching it |
| RETT, JESSICA L reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.31 | 71 | 3 | 61% | - | not teaching it |
| MOTTER, THOMAS CLARENCE reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.68 | 41 | 1 | 76% | - | not teaching it |
| POOLE, ETHAN JOHN reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.32 | 36 | 1 | 67% | - | not teaching it |
| CHANG, KALEN WEI reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.60 | 24 | 1 | 75% | - | not teaching it |
| KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.49 | 24 | 1 | 54% | - | not teaching it |
| SCHUTZE, CARSON T reviews ↗ | 2.75 | 2.12 | 14 · | 1 | 29% | heavy | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before LING 165B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LING 165B in Winter 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.
In Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 120B. To be taken in term following completion of course 120B or as soon as possible thereafter. Recommended for students who plan to do graduate work in linguistics. Form of grammars, word formation, formal and substantive universals in syntax, relation between syntax and semantics. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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