SPAN 160
Topics in Spanish Linguistics: Linguistic Landscape of Spanish-Speaking World
Lecture.
Winter 2026: 2 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.73
Average grade awarded in SPAN 160. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
81%
of the 470 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 470 grades over 13 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 13 terms ran 3.57 to 3.97.
Historical grades for QUICOLI, ANTONIO C, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 17 · 20.0%
- A 18 · 21.2%
- A- 22 · 25.9%
- B+ 16 · 18.8%
- B 6 · 7.1%
- B- 1 · 1.2%
- C+ 1 · 1.2%
- C 1 · 1.2%
- D+ 2 · 2.4%
- F 1 · 1.2%
Percentages are of the 85 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, JI YOUNG reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.82 | 133 | 5 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| SUHR, CARLOTA reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.66 | 111 | 4 | 75% | average | Open, 3 seats left |
| QUICOLI, ANTONIO C reviews ↗ | 3.58 | 3.55 | 85 | 4 | 67% | light | Open, 25 seats left |
| RANERO ECHEVERRIA, RODRIGO reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.80 | 60 | 2 | 87% | light | not teaching it |
| GUERRERO, ARMANDO, JR reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.90 | 40 | 1 | 95% | - | not teaching it |
| MATEU, VICTORIA reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.73 | 29 | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| CARTER, JACK reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.84 | 12 · | 1 | 92% | - | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 10 reviews; source checked 7 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 4 courses long before SPAN 160. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for SPAN 160 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, four hours. Requisite: course 25 or 27. Exploration of origin of language, how Spanish is acquired, evolution of Spanish from Latin to early modern period, how Spanish varies in world, how to teach Spanish, Spanish in contact with other languages. Possible topics include Spanish in Los Angeles, history of Spanish language, first- and second-language acquisition, language and cognition. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open3 seats left.
27 of 30 enrolled
Seat risk
- -
Seats
Open25 seats left.
5 of 30 enrolled
Instructor
3.58Predicted GPA
Historical records for QUICOLI, ANTONIO C; 85 letter gradesSeat risk
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 31 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 12 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Suhr, C. · 27 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 27 of 30.
Lec 3 · Quicoli, A.C. · 5 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 5 of 30.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.