PORTGSE M35
Spanish, Portuguese, and Nature of Language
Also listed as SPAN M35: 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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 49 · 19.8%
- A 58 · 23.5%
- A- 60 · 24.3%
- B+ 27 · 10.9%
- B 19 · 7.7%
- B- 9 · 3.6%
- C+ 5 · 2.0%
- C 8 · 3.2%
- C- 3 · 1.2%
- D 3 · 1.2%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 5 · 2.0%
- P 18 of 269
- NP 3 of 269
- NR 1 of 269
Percentages are of the 247 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MATEU, VICTORIA reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.67 | 149 | 4 | 77% | - | not teaching it |
| 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.
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 Summer Session A 2026
From the people who took it
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