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Dibs Fall 2026

PORTGSE M35

Spanish, Portuguese, and Nature of Language

(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.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.48
n = 209 · 6 terms · ± 0.037
A range
68%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
9%
85% of those passed
D / F / W
3.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
28 of 33
85% full
 fills MW 12:00pm-1:50pm Mateu, V.
3.65n=149 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 3821F
  • 4122F
  • 4023F
  • 3924S
  • 3824F
  • 3425S
Enrolment by term: 21F 38, 22F 41, 23F 40, 24S 39, 24F 38, 25S 34
Peak 41 Most recent 34 in 25S 6 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 41 · 17.8%
  • A 48 · 20.9%
  • A- 53 · 23.0%
  • B+ 23 · 10.0%
  • B 15 · 6.5%
  • B- 9 · 3.9%
  • C+ 5 · 2.2%
  • C 5 · 2.2%
  • C- 2 · 0.9%
  • D 3 · 1.3%
  • D- 1 · 0.4%
  • F 4 · 1.7%
  • P 17 · 7.4%
  • NP 3 · 1.3%
  • NR 1 · 0.4%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
MATEU, VICTORIA 3.65 3.67 149 4 77%
RANERO ECHEVERRIA, RODRIGO 3.08 2.99 60 2 47%

“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.

By term