LING 170
Language and Society: Sociolinguistic Analysis
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 162 · 42.1%
- A 112 · 29.1%
- A- 44 · 11.4%
- B+ 19 · 4.9%
- B 20 · 5.2%
- B- 6 · 1.6%
- C+ 5 · 1.3%
- C 5 · 1.3%
- C- 2 · 0.5%
- D+ 3 · 0.8%
- D 2 · 0.5%
- D- 1 · 0.3%
- F 4 · 1.0%
- P 12 of 406
- NP 2 of 406
- I 7 of 406
Percentages are of the 385 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAHTINA, DARIA reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.75 | 234 | 5 | 84% | very light | not teaching it |
| 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. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LING 170 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
No grade records for this course in the 4 Winters covered, back to Fall 2021. This grade history does not establish current or future offerings.
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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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