LING 120A
Phonology I
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 68 minutes ago.
Grades
3.38
Average grade awarded in LING 120A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
63%
of the 331 letter grades
D, F or W
6.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
6 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 331 grades over 10 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 10 terms ran 2.84 to 3.78.
Historical grades for ZURAW, KIE ROSS, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 16 · 15.7%
- A 35 · 34.3%
- A- 19 · 18.6%
- B+ 8 · 7.8%
- B 15 · 14.7%
- B- 3 · 2.9%
- C 1 · 1.0%
- D 2 · 2.0%
- F 3 · 2.9%
- I 2 of 104
Percentages are of the 102 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZURAW, KIE ROSS reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.51 | 102 | 3 | 69% | very light | Waitlist, 4 of 10 places taken |
| BELL, ELISE A reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.84 | 46 | 1 | 41% | - | not teaching it |
| MOORE-CANTWELL, CLAIRE reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.56 | 38 | 1 | 74% | very light | not teaching it |
| EISCHENS, BENJAMIN J reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.48 | 35 | 1 | 71% | very light | not teaching it |
| HAYES, BRUCE P reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.21 | 34 | 1 | 50% | average | not teaching it |
| ZUKOFF, SAM reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 3.34 | 27 | 1 | 63% | - | not teaching it |
| KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.36 | 25 | 1 | 56% | - | not teaching it |
| RETT, JESSICA L reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.78 | 24 | 1 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| SIAH, JIAN-LEAT reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.78 | 24 | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before LING 120A. 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 Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 20, 103. Introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Rules, representations, underlying forms, derivations. Justification of phonological analyses. Emphasis on practical skills with problem sets. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 10:00am-11:50amWaitlist3.49predicted, this instructor · 102 grades
4 of 10 places taken. 40 of 40 enrolled high risk
2 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 4 of 10.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 21 and 47 a term over 8 terms, summer excluded, most recently 21 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking LING 120A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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 · Zuraw, K.R. · 40 of 40 enrolled
Same seat count, but the status went closed to waitlist and the waitlist went 10 of 10 to 4 of 10 over about 1 month
All 20 readings say 40 of 40.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
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.