CLASSIC 185
Origins and Nature of English Vocabulary
Grades
3.39
Average grade awarded in CLASSIC 185. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
68%
of the 146 letter grades
D, F or W
6.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
13%
86% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 146 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.15 to 3.90.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 4.8%
- A 72 · 49.3%
- A- 20 · 13.7%
- B+ 10 · 6.8%
- B 9 · 6.2%
- B- 8 · 5.5%
- C+ 4 · 2.7%
- C 5 · 3.4%
- C- 2 · 1.4%
- D- 1 · 0.7%
- F 8 · 5.5%
- P 19 of 168
- NP 3 of 168
Percentages are of the 146 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VINE, BRENT HARMON reviews ↗ | 3.20 | 3.15 | 73 | 1 | 60% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BLANK, DAVID L reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.85 | 45 | 2 | 89% | very light | not teaching it |
| VIVIAN, ANTHONY LARESE reviews ↗ | 3.35 | 3.28 | 16 · | 1 | 69% | - | not teaching it |
| BORST, ZACHARY PAUL reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 3.28 | 12 · | 1 | 33% | - | 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 3 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 1 reviewer
- Projects mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 18 reviews 26 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 CLASSIC 185 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.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs 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. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2021.
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. Origins and nature of English vocabulary, from Proto-Indo-European prehistory to current slang. Topics include Greek and Latin component in English (including technical terminology), alphabet and English spelling, semantic change and word formation, vocabulary in literature and film. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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