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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 45 hours ago.

Grades

3.64

Average grade awarded in ANTHRO 159. Not a 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.31 to 4.00.

  • A+ 88 · 38.3%
  • A 55 · 23.9%
  • A- 38 · 16.5%
  • B+ 16 · 7.0%
  • B 10 · 4.3%
  • B- 8 · 3.5%
  • C+ 4 · 1.7%
  • C 3 · 1.3%
  • C- 2 · 0.9%
  • D 1 · 0.4%
  • F 5 · 2.2%
  • P 2 of 236
  • S 1 of 236
  • I 3 of 236

Percentages are of the 230 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), satisfactory (S), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

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

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for ANTHRO 159

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

dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of . The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

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.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

Lec 1 · Bahtina, D. · 56 of 56 enrolled

Filled by 4 over 13 days

5751
18 Aug 18:41capacity 5631 Aug 06:44