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Dibs Fall 2026

SPAN M35

Spanish, Portuguese, and Nature of Language

(Same as Portuguese 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
3.36
n = 366 · 9 terms · ± 0.028
A range
60%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
9%
89% of those passed
D / F / W
5.5%
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 Closed
73 of 73
100% full
 fills MW 12:00pm-1:50pm Mateu, V.
3.51n=267 · 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.

  • 7421F
  • 5922F
  • 5823F
  • 5824S
  • 5824F
  • 5325S
Enrolment by term: 21F 74, 22F 59, 23F 58, 24S 58, 24F 58, 25S 53
Peak 74 Most recent 53 in 25S 6 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 53 · 13.2%
  • A 92 · 22.9%
  • A- 74 · 18.4%
  • B+ 51 · 12.7%
  • B 29 · 7.2%
  • B- 19 · 4.7%
  • C+ 13 · 3.2%
  • C 8 · 2.0%
  • C- 7 · 1.7%
  • D+ 2 · 0.5%
  • D 3 · 0.7%
  • D- 4 · 1.0%
  • F 11 · 2.7%
  • P 31 · 7.7%
  • NP 4 · 1.0%
  • I 1 · 0.2%

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 3.51 3.52 267 7 67%
RANERO ECHEVERRIA, RODRIGO 2.95 2.89 99 2 40%

“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