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ANTHRO 159

Selected Topics in Linguistic Anthropology: Language across Generations, from Socialization to Slang

4 units

Lecture.

Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 20 hours ago.

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Grades

3.64

Average grade awarded in ANTHRO 159. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

79%

of the 230 letter grades

D, F or W

2.6%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

1%

2 of 2 students passed

The registrar's own records: 230 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.31 to 4.00.

Historical grades for BAHTINA, DARIA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
ALIM, H SAMY reviews ↗ 3.92 4.00 60 1 100% - not teaching it
HAUCK, JAN DAVID reviews ↗ 3.57 3.56 60 1 78% - not teaching it
CHO, SYLVIA reviews ↗ 3.38 3.31 60 1 60% - not teaching it
CARTMILL, ERICA A reviews ↗ 3.68 3.70 50 1 76% - 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.

Reviews for ANTHRO 159

Workload and assignments

Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.

What the work looks like

  • 1 exam, 1 mention in past reviews
  • 1 group work, 1 mention in past reviews

Based on 4 reviews; source checked 7 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

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In Falls

Ran in 1 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, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Study of selected topics in linguistic anthropology. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

  • Lec 1

    MW 3:30pm-4:45pm

    Waitlist

    0 of 5 places taken.

    60 of 60 · 3 over enrolled

    Bahtina, D.

    3.64

    Predicted GPA

    Historical records across all instructors; 230 letter grades
    high risk

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 51 and 61 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 61 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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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 · Bahtina, D. · 60 of 60 · 3 over enrolled

Nothing read since 16 Oct, 20 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 8.

60 of 60 · no seats left
18 Aug 18:4117 Sep 07:1116 Oct 19:42 · 20 hours ago
Checked 168 of the 609 hours with hourly history, 28%. No reading was recorded in 441 hours. dibs had no hourly record before 21 Sep, which is the other 809 of 1418 plotted.60 of 60 enrolled at the newest reading, 20 hours ago, and no seats left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:41 to 16 Oct 19:42, 52 to 60. Checks are not continuous monitoring. Changes between checks may be missed.
How readings and alerts work

Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.

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.