LING 11
Sociolinguistics: Scientific Study of Language and Society
Grades
3.78
Average grade awarded in LING 11. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
87%
of the 237 letter grades
D, F or W
4.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 237 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 3.44 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 137 · 57.8%
- A 50 · 21.1%
- A- 19 · 8.0%
- B+ 8 · 3.4%
- B 7 · 3.0%
- B- 8 · 3.4%
- C+ 2 · 0.8%
- C 1 · 0.4%
- C- 1 · 0.4%
- F 4 · 1.7%
- DR 6 of 243
Percentages are of the 237 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAHTINA, DARIA reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.84 | 199 | 2 | 88% | very light | not teaching it |
| KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.44 | 38 | 1 | 79% | - | 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
- No exams, said by 4 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- 2 papers, said by 2 reviewers
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 10 reviews 26 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
dibs has not read a class page for LING 11 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to key topics in sociolinguistics such as language variation, the performativity of language, language attitudes and ideologies, and the sociocognitive underpinnings of human communication. Through a multidisciplinary approach, students learn to analyze language in its social context, gaining insights into the intricate relationship between linguistic practices and social structures. By critically examining how language reflects and reinforces systems of power, privilege, and inequality--and how it shapes perspective and access--students are equipped with tools to engage thoughtfully with the complex sociolinguistic realities of the world around them. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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