CHIN 1
Elementary Modern Chinese
Grades
3.80
Average grade awarded in CHIN 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 492 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
9%
94% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 492 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.71 to 3.87.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 165 · 33.5%
- A 200 · 40.7%
- A- 74 · 15.0%
- B+ 12 · 2.4%
- B 15 · 3.0%
- B- 10 · 2.0%
- C+ 6 · 1.2%
- C 4 · 0.8%
- C- 1 · 0.2%
- D+ 1 · 0.2%
- D- 2 · 0.4%
- F 2 · 0.4%
- P 46 of 548
- NP 3 of 548
- S 6 of 548
- U 1 of 548
Percentages are of the 492 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), and unsatisfactory (U).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHIEF, LIANCHENG reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.78 | 267 | 5 | 88% | average | not teaching it |
| YAO, YU-WEN reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.83 | 206 | 5 | 90% | light | not teaching it |
| SHEN, YAN reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.92 | 19 · | 1 | 95% | - | 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.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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, two hours. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Chinese to qualify for more advanced courses. Introduction to fundamentals of standard Chinese, including pronunciation, grammar, and Chinese characters, with emphasis on all four basic language skills—speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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