PORTGSE M35
Spanish, Portuguese, and Nature of Language
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 2 hours ago.
Also listed as SPAN M35 (waitlist, 80 of 80 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.47
Average grade awarded in PORTGSE M35. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
68%
of the 247 letter grades
D, F or W
3.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
86% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 247 grades over 7 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 7 terms ran 2.92 to 3.79.
Historical grades for MATEU, VICTORIA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 40 · 26.8%
- A 41 · 27.5%
- A- 33 · 22.1%
- B+ 18 · 12.1%
- B 4 · 2.7%
- B- 6 · 4.0%
- C+ 1 · 0.7%
- C 3 · 2.0%
- C- 2 · 1.3%
- D 1 · 0.7%
- P 7 of 157
- NR 1 of 157
Percentages are of the 149 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no report (NR).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MATEU, VICTORIA reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.67 | 149 | 4 | 77% | - | Waitlist, 1 of 8 places taken |
| RANERO ECHEVERRIA, RODRIGO reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.17 | 98 | 3 | 54% | - | 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
- 2 exams, said by 3 reviewers
- 8 problem sets, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 16 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.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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
(Same as Spanish M35.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to language study within context of Romance languages, focusing on Spanish and Portuguese. Nature of language: structure, diversity, evolution, social and cultural settings, literary uses. Study of language and its relation to other areas of human knowledge. 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 MW 12:00pm-1:50pmWaitlist3.65predicted, this instructor · 149 grades
1 of 8 places taken. 40 of 40 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 1 of 8.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
F 9:00am-9:50am · Public Affairs Building 1329
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
10 of 10 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 10:00am-10:50am · Public Affairs Building 1329
Waitlist1 of 2 places taken.
10 of 10 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 11:00am-11:50am · Public Affairs Building 1329
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
10 of 10 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 12:00pm-12:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1329
Waitlist0 of 2 places taken.
10 of 10 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 34 and 41 a term over 7 terms, summer excluded, most recently 39 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking PORTGSE M35 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 · Mateu, V. · 40 of 40 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 12.
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.