CHIN 50
Chinese Civilization
Grades
3.56
Average grade awarded in CHIN 50. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
71%
of the 1,133 letter grades
D, F or W
3.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
16%
96% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,133 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 3.14 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 212 · 18.7%
- A 420 · 37.1%
- A- 178 · 15.7%
- B+ 113 · 10.0%
- B 79 · 7.0%
- B- 42 · 3.7%
- C+ 21 · 1.9%
- C 20 · 1.8%
- C- 13 · 1.1%
- D+ 5 · 0.4%
- D 4 · 0.4%
- D- 1 · 0.1%
- F 25 · 2.2%
- P 207 of 1,359
- NP 9 of 1,359
- I 5 of 1,359
- DR 5 of 1,359
Percentages are of the 1,133 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WU, YINGHUI reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.76 | 348 | 2 | 83% | light | not teaching it |
| SCHABERG, DAVID C reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.41 | 310 | 2 | 63% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| LI, MIN reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.70 | 296 | 2 | 79% | very light | not teaching it |
| DUTHIE, NINA NATASHA reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.19 | 113 | 1 | 57% | average | not teaching it |
| KAO, YUPING reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.14 | 66 | 1 | 44% | - | 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.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 112 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
In Winters
Ran in 3 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; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50W. Knowledge of Chinese not required. Introduction to most important aspects of Chinese culture. Topics include early Chinese civilization, historical development of Chinese society, issues of ethnicity, Chinese language and philosophy, and early scientific and technological innovation. P/NP or letter grading.
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