LING 170
Language and Society: Sociolinguistic Analysis
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. 1 lecture and 1 discussion are open. The oldest of these readings was 53 minutes ago.
Grades
3.73
Average grade awarded in LING 170. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 369 letter grades
D, F or W
2.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
12 of 13 students passed
The registrar's own records: 369 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Spring 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.41 to 3.92.
- A+ 158 · 42.8%
- A 107 · 29.0%
- A- 41 · 11.1%
- B+ 18 · 4.9%
- B 19 · 5.1%
- B- 6 · 1.6%
- C+ 5 · 1.4%
- C 5 · 1.4%
- C- 2 · 0.5%
- D+ 3 · 0.8%
- D 2 · 0.5%
- D- 1 · 0.3%
- F 2 · 0.5%
- P 12 of 388
- NP 1 of 388
- I 6 of 388
Percentages are of the 369 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAHTINA, DARIA reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.75 | 234 | 5 | 84% |
| SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.82 | 75 | 1 | 83% |
| RETT, JESSICA L reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.55 | 42 | 2 | 76% |
| GLADNEY, ANISSA reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.55 | 42 | 2 | 76% |
| GLADNEY, ANISSA D reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.56 | 18 · small sample | 1 | 83% |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
From the registrar's catalog
dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.
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 3 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and Dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.
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Lec 1 MW 12:00pm-1:50pmOpen3.74this instructor · 234 grades
5 seats left. 51 of 56 enrolled medium risk
2 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1B, F 3:00pm-3:50pm.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 40 and 77 a term over 6 terms, summer excluded, most recently 77 in Spring 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
Lec 1 · Bahtina, D. · 51 of 56 enrolled
Filled by 2 over 12 days