ASIAN M60W
Introduction to Buddhism
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Also listed as RELIGN M60W: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.52
Average grade awarded in ASIAN M60W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
66%
of the 181 letter grades
D, F or W
4.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
2 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 181 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.39 to 3.83.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 10 · 5.5%
- A 99 · 54.7%
- A- 10 · 5.5%
- B+ 32 · 17.7%
- B 11 · 6.1%
- B- 2 · 1.1%
- C+ 2 · 1.1%
- C 7 · 3.9%
- D 1 · 0.6%
- F 7 · 3.9%
- P 2 of 184
- NP 1 of 184
Percentages are of the 181 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BODIFORD, WILLIAM M reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.52 | 63 | 1 | 62% | - | not teaching it |
| BODIFORD, WILLIAM reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.41 | 56 | 1 | 55% | - | not teaching it |
| LIPPIT, SEIJI MIZUTA reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.83 | 31 | 1 | 87% | - | not teaching it |
| NEWHALL, THOMAS BRADFORD reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.39 | 31 | 1 | 71% | - | 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 9 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 1 paper, said by 8 reviewers
- 1 group work, said by 2 reviewers
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 32 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 ASIAN M60W 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.
In Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Spring 2023.
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
(Same as Religion M60W.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course M60. Knowledge of Asian languages not required. General survey of Buddhist worldview and lifestyle, with focus on those religious doctrines and meditative practices most essential to various Asian traditions of Buddhism. Particular attention to problems involved in study of religion. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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