SPAN 3
Elementary Spanish
Grades
3.60
Average grade awarded in SPAN 3. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 2,838 letter grades
D, F or W
1.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
24%
94% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,838 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.47 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 255 · 9.0%
- A 1,260 · 44.4%
- A- 584 · 20.6%
- B+ 233 · 8.2%
- B 206 · 7.3%
- B- 97 · 3.4%
- C+ 71 · 2.5%
- C 62 · 2.2%
- C- 16 · 0.6%
- D+ 7 · 0.2%
- D 14 · 0.5%
- F 33 · 1.2%
- P 830 of 3,730
- NP 50 of 3,730
- S 9 of 3,730
- I 3 of 3,730
Percentages are of the 2,838 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), and incompletes (I).
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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FALCE-ROBINSON, JULIET A reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.59 | 2,711 | 17 | 73% | very light | not teaching it |
| GARCIA LORENZO, GELSYS MARIA reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.78 | 141 | 3 | 86% | very light | not teaching it |
| SUHR, CARLOTA reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.75 | 139 | 5 | 85% | light | not teaching it |
| REDA COLL, FRANCESC reviews ↗ | 3.28 | 3.23 | 112 | 6 | 54% | very light | not teaching it |
| MIDDLETON, MCKENNA ROSE reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.72 | 54 | 1 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| ARRANZ OTAEGUI, IKER reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.70 | 43 | 2 | 81% | - | not teaching it |
| DE LA TORRE AMAGUANA, LUZ MARIA reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.43 | 39 | 3 | 56% | - | not teaching it |
| CORTINEZ, VERONICA reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.75 | 39 | 1 | 82% | - | not teaching it |
| COHEN, GREG D reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.93 | 22 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| RODRIGUEZ, JIMENA NELIDA reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.83 | 21 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| DE LA TORRE, LUZ reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.83 | 18 · | 1 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| HERNANDEZ, LEANDRO reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.44 | 9 · | 1 | 78% | - | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 64 reviews; source checked 6 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before SPAN 3. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for SPAN 3 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 2 with grade of C or better or Spanish placement test. Taught in Spanish. Laboratory is online. Introductory Spanish language and culture course that is proficiency-oriented, communicative, and task-based to help develop communicative competence in four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), as well as cultural competence. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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