CLASSIC 47
Medical Terminology: Origins, Nature, and Practice
Lecture.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 30 days ago.
Grades
3.96
Average grade awarded in CLASSIC 47. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
99%
of the 725 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
95% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 725 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.86 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 322 · 44.4%
- A 380 · 52.4%
- A- 14 · 1.9%
- B+ 1 · 0.1%
- B 2 · 0.3%
- C 2 · 0.3%
- F 4 · 0.6%
- P 19 of 745
- NP 1 of 745
Percentages are of the 725 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
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 A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLANK, DAVID L reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 3.98 | 381 | 4 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| BECKELHYMER, SAMUEL DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.94 | 3.94 | 344 | 5 | 98% | light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
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Workload and assignments
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Introduction to specialized vocabulary of health sciences, which is rooted in Greek and Roman languages and in those two cultures from which much of history of modern medicine is derived. Students gain working knowledge of fundamental terminology used in medicine and health sciences as well as how this terminology has been composed. Development of ability to interpret and pronounce words. Students apply linguistic rules and how they operate in English and field-specific vocabulary to understand new terminology in various health science fields. Study of etymological origins of fundamental terminology as mnemonic aid for learning and recalling this terminology, and also to serve as mechanism for connecting health/medical professions to humanistic origins. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 Time TBAOpen
Saldana, M. and Purves, A.C.
3.96predicted, all instructors · 725 grades29 seats left. 56 of 85 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 85 and 120 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 120 in Winter 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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What a flat run means, and where a line starts
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Lec 1 · Saldana, M. and Purves, A.C. · 56 of 85 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 56 of 85.
How readings and alerts work
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