ESL 301
High-Intermediate Writing and Communication for International Graduate Students
Lecture.
Fall 2026: 2 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 16 hours ago.
Grades
3.81
Average grade awarded in ESL 301. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
87%
of the 288 letter grades
D, F or W
0.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 288 grades over 13 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 13 terms ran 3.17 to 3.97.
Historical grades for CHAMBERLAIN, MICHAEL ALLEN, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 5 · 71.4%
- A- 2 · 28.6%
- S 11 of 18
Percentages are of the 7 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 ↗ | 3.80 | 3.80 | 81 | 6 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| HUALPA, LAILA DEL VALLE reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.79 | 57 | 5 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| HE, YINGLIANG reviews ↗ | 3.95 | 4.00 | 52 | 3 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| GEVERS, JEROEN reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.85 | 35 | 2 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| WANG, TIANFANG SALLY reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.91 | 31 | 2 | 90% | - | Closed |
| BARRIOS, GABRIELA PATRICIA reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.01 | 16 · | 1 | 25% | - | not teaching it |
| HOLTEN, CHRISTINE reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.78 | 9 · | 1 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| CHAMBERLAIN, MICHAEL ALLEN reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.91 | 7 · | 1 | 100% | - | Closed |
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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No reviews were listed in the BruinWalk source checked 7 days ago. Assignment details are unknown. Check the current syllabus.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before ESL 301. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 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, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 300 or proficiency demonstrated on English as a Second Language Placement Examination. Development of academic writing skills with focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and composition techniques, with additional work on grammar and editing. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Closed17 of 17 enrolled
Instructor
3.84Predicted GPA
Historical records for CHAMBERLAIN, MICHAEL ALLEN; 7 letter grades;Seat risk
high risk -
Seats
Closed18 of 18 enrolled
Seat risk
high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 15 and 20 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 18 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ESL 301 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Chamberlain, M.A. · 17 of 17 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 16 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 12.
Lec 2 · Wang, T. · 18 of 18 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 16 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 15.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.