JAPAN 100A
Advanced Modern Japanese
Grades
3.63
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 100A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 115 letter grades
D, F or W
1.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
3 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 115 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.45 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 6 · 5.2%
- A 51 · 44.3%
- A- 30 · 26.1%
- B+ 11 · 9.6%
- B 9 · 7.8%
- B- 3 · 2.6%
- C 2 · 1.7%
- C- 1 · 0.9%
- D+ 1 · 0.9%
- F 1 · 0.9%
- P 3 of 126
- NP 1 of 126
- S 7 of 126
Percentages are of the 115 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAKAKURA, ASAKO HAYASHI reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.73 | 78 | 3 | 79% | very light | not teaching it |
| KAWANISHI, YUMIKO reviews ↗ | 3.48 | 3.41 | 37 | 2 | 68% | light | 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
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before JAPAN 100A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for JAPAN 100A in Winter 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for JAPAN 6, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 3 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2022. That is 3 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 6 or 10 with grade of C or better or Japanese placement test. Course 100A with grade of C or better or Japanese placement test is enforced requisite to 100B; course 100B with grade of C or better or Japanese placement test is enforced requisite to 100C. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Japanese to qualify for more advanced courses. Learning Japanese language with emphasis on sociocultural issues of contemporary Japanese society. Materials selected from contemporary publications, videos, and audiotapes. Reading with focus on linguistics features, writing summaries and opinions, oral activities, and project work. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
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