I E STD M70
Language and Evolution
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Also listed as LING M4 (closed, 20 of 20 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.93
Average grade awarded in I E STD M70. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
96%
of the 74 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 74 grades over 2 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 2 terms ran 3.89 to 3.97.
Historical grades for CLAYTON, JOHN BUNYAN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 36 · 48.6%
- A 28 · 37.8%
- A- 7 · 9.5%
- B+ 1 · 1.4%
- B 1 · 1.4%
- C+ 1 · 1.4%
- P 3 of 77
Percentages are of the 74 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAYTON, JOHN BUNYAN reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.93 | 74 | 2 | 96% | very light | Waitlist, 5 of 8 places taken |
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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 2 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 group work, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 6 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Linguistics M4.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Homo Sapiens is only species on Earth with capacity to create infinite number of utterances from small inventory of speech sounds. How and why our species developed this ability is question of fundamental scientific and humanistic importance. Survey of origin of human language from number of intellectual perspectives, including linguistics, anthropology, and evolutionary biology. Exploration of relationship between language faculty and linguistic theory. P/NP or letter grading.
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 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 12:30pm-1:45pmWaitlist3.92predicted, this instructor · 74 grades
5 of 8 places taken. 100 of 100 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 5 of 8.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
F 10:00am-10:50am · Dodd Hall 162
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 11:00am-11:50am · Dodd Hall 162
Waitlist1 of 2 places taken.
25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Dodd Hall 162
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
25 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 1:00pm-1:50pm · Dodd Hall 162
Closed25 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 34 and 43 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 43 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 I E STD M70 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 · Clayton, J.B. · 100 of 100 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 4 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, same seat count, but the status went closed to waitlist and the waitlist went 8 of 8 to 5 of 8.
All 13 readings say 100 of 100.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.