LING 170
Language and Society: Sociolinguistic Analysis
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. 1 lecture and 1 discussion are open. The oldest of these readings was 8 hours ago.
Grades
3.71
Average grade awarded in LING 170. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
83%
of the 385 letter grades
D, F or W
2.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
12 of 14 students passed
The registrar's own records: 385 grades over 10 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 10 terms ran 3.34 to 3.92.
Historical grades for BAHTINA, DARIA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 97 · 41.5%
- A 71 · 30.3%
- A- 29 · 12.4%
- B+ 10 · 4.3%
- B 12 · 5.1%
- B- 4 · 1.7%
- C+ 4 · 1.7%
- C 2 · 0.9%
- D+ 2 · 0.9%
- D 1 · 0.4%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 1 · 0.4%
- P 8 of 249
- NP 1 of 249
- I 6 of 249
Percentages are of the 234 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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAHTINA, DARIA reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.75 | 234 | 5 | 84% | very light | Open, 2 seats left |
| SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.82 | 75 | 1 | 83% | average | not teaching it |
| RETT, JESSICA L reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.55 | 42 | 2 | 76% | - | not teaching it |
| GLADNEY, ANISSA reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.55 | 42 | 2 | 76% | - | not teaching it |
| GLADNEY, ANISSA D reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.56 | 18 · | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.34 | 16 · | 1 | 75% | - | 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
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- 1 paper, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- 1 group work, 2 mentions in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 12 reviews; source checked 6 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 1 course long before LING 170. 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 Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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 20. Study of patterned covariation of language and society; social dialects and social styles in language; problems of multilingual societies. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open2 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 54 of 56 enrolled
Seat risk
high risk
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.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking LING 170 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 · Bahtina, D. · 54 of 56 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 5.
How readings and alerts work
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