ESL 301
High-Intermediate Writing and Communication for International Graduate Students
Lecture.
Spring 2027: 2 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months 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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 78 · 27.1%
- A 119 · 41.3%
- A- 53 · 18.4%
- B+ 19 · 6.6%
- B 11 · 3.8%
- B- 4 · 1.4%
- C+ 2 · 0.7%
- C 1 · 0.3%
- F 1 · 0.3%
- S 129 of 419
- U 2 of 419
Percentages are of the 288 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S) and unsatisfactory (U).
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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | - | not teaching it |
| 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% | - | 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
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. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ESL 301 in Spring 2027 and a department can change what it requires. 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 Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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 Spring 2027
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
Not published yetno enrollment count published
Instructor
Not yet assigned
3.81Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 288 letter gradesSeat risk
no history -
Seats
Not published yetno enrollment count published
Instructor
Not yet assigned
3.81Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 288 letter gradesSeat risk
no history
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.
Seats over time in Spring 2027
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
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.
From the people who took it
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