LING 110
Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Grades
3.57
Average grade awarded in LING 110. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 193 letter grades
D, F or W
4.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
6 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 193 grades over 7 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 7 terms ran 1.96 to 3.88.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 54 · 28.0%
- A 71 · 36.8%
- A- 23 · 11.9%
- B+ 8 · 4.1%
- B 14 · 7.3%
- B- 5 · 2.6%
- C+ 4 · 2.1%
- C 4 · 2.1%
- C- 1 · 0.5%
- D 4 · 2.1%
- F 5 · 2.6%
- P 6 of 201
- NP 2 of 201
Percentages are of the 193 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDSTEIN, DAVID MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.84 | 108 | 3 | 93% | very light | not teaching it |
| SILVESTRI, GIUSEPPINA reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.46 | 59 | 2 | 61% | - | not teaching it |
| RETT, JESSICA L reviews ↗ | 2.84 | 1.96 | 14 · | 1 | 7% | - | not teaching it |
| KEINE, STEFAN reviews ↗ | 3.60 | 3.64 | 12 · | 1 | 92% | - | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Falls.
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, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 20, 102 or 103, 119A or 120A. Methods and theories appropriate to historical study of language, such as comparative method and method of internal reconstruction. Sound change, grammatical change, semantic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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