ESL 20
Conversation and Fluency
Grades
3.64
Average grade awarded in ESL 20. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 206 letter grades
D, F or W
5.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
7%
14 of 15 students passed
The registrar's own records: 206 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
Every one of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.48 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 71 · 34.5%
- A 81 · 39.3%
- A- 16 · 7.8%
- B+ 9 · 4.4%
- B 9 · 4.4%
- B- 3 · 1.5%
- C+ 2 · 1.0%
- C 2 · 1.0%
- C- 2 · 1.0%
- D+ 1 · 0.5%
- D 4 · 1.9%
- D- 1 · 0.5%
- F 5 · 2.4%
- P 14 of 226
- NP 1 of 226
- S 5 of 226
Percentages are of the 206 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and satisfactory (S).
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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHERWOOD, LESLIE ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.69 | 68 | 2 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
| GEVERS, JEROEN reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.68 | 65 | 1 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| KELLEY, JEREMY CARL reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.48 | 34 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| SHERRER, THOMAS A reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.71 | 23 | 1 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| HIRSH, WILLIAM THOMAS reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.93 | 20 | 1 | 90% | - | not teaching it |
| HUGH SAM, JORDAN MATTHEW reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.50 | 16 · | 1 | 75% | - | not teaching it |
| LYNN, COOPER REBECK reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.85 | 11 · | 1 | 91% | - | 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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ESL 20 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.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours. Emphasis on speaking fluently in English by examining rules of conversation, participating actively in class discussions, making group presentations, and completing out-of-class assignments designed to promote interaction with native speakers and familiarize international students with UCLA campus and local community. Offered in summer only. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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