CHIN 70
Introduction to Traditional Chinese Literature
Grades
3.68
Average grade awarded in CHIN 70. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 216 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
12%
97% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 216 grades over 2 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 2 terms ran 3.59 to 3.75.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 15 · 6.9%
- A 99 · 45.8%
- A- 46 · 21.3%
- B+ 26 · 12.0%
- B 18 · 8.3%
- B- 6 · 2.8%
- C+ 3 · 1.4%
- C 2 · 0.9%
- D+ 1 · 0.5%
- P 29 of 247
- NP 1 of 247
- I 1 of 247
Percentages are of the 216 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and 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 | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, HUIJUN reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 216 | 2 | 74% | light | 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
- 1 exam, said by 1 reviewer
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 2 papers, said by 1 reviewer
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 27 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 CHIN 70 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Prior knowledge of Chinese culture, literature, or language not required. Introduction to pre-20th-century Chinese literary traditions, including selections from poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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