I E STD M70
Language and Evolution
Also listed as LING M4: 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 all professors, 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAYTON, JOHN BUNYAN reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.93 | 74 | 2 | 96% | very light | 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.
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 Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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