FRNCH 1
Elementary French
Grades
3.61
Average grade awarded in FRNCH 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 807 letter grades
D, F or W
3.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
92% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 807 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 3.22 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 123 · 15.2%
- A 348 · 43.1%
- A- 128 · 15.9%
- B+ 82 · 10.2%
- B 58 · 7.2%
- B- 23 · 2.9%
- C+ 10 · 1.2%
- C 9 · 1.1%
- C- 4 · 0.5%
- D 4 · 0.5%
- F 18 · 2.2%
- P 69 of 911
- NP 6 of 911
- S 24 of 911
- I 3 of 911
- DR 2 of 911
Percentages are of the 807 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJEKOVIC, NINA reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.62 | 484 | 8 | 75% | - | not teaching it |
| JANSMA, KIMBERLY reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.54 | 207 | 4 | 69% | heavy | not teaching it |
| DENIE HIGNEY, LAURENCE M reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.80 | 87 | 3 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
| BARGER, ALEXA reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.78 | 18 · | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| DUVAL, ELSA reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.63 | 15 · | 1 | 73% | light | not teaching it |
| PRESNER, TODD S reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.22 | 14 · | 1 | 57% | - | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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, two and one half hours. Taught in French. Introductory study of French language and culture. Focus on interactive activities and application of concepts learned through outside self-study and foundational learning. Emphasis on proficiency, communication, and task-based learning to develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as cultural awareness. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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