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You are looking at Winter 2026. That term is over, so these are last term's numbers rather than seats you can take. dibs holds 1,472 sections for Winter 2026, read about 1 month ago. Separately, it has finished 195 of the 3,572 courses on its current checking list for this term. Future-term coverage is incomplete, so a course with nothing here may simply not have been reached yet. Back to Fall 2026

FRNCH 2

Elementary French

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture.

Winter 2026: 5 sections. 4 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.

Grades

3.63

Average grade awarded in FRNCH 2. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

75%

of the 573 letter grades

D, F or W

1.4%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

9%

95% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 573 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 3.14 to 3.89.

Historical grades for DUVAL, ELSA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 2 · 11.8%
  • A 7 · 41.2%
  • A- 5 · 29.4%
  • B+ 2 · 11.8%
  • B 1 · 5.9%

Percentages are of the 17 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Winter 2026
BJEKOVIC, NINA reviews ↗ 3.67 3.67 377 7 75% - not teaching it
JANSMA, KIMBERLY reviews ↗ 3.50 3.48 148 4 69% average not teaching it
DUVAL, ELSA reviews ↗ 3.70 3.77 17 · 1 82% - Open, 6 seats left
DENIE HIGNEY, LAURENCE M reviews ↗ 3.66 3.69 16 · 1 88% average not teaching it
COLON, EGLANTINE reviews ↗ 3.76 3.89 15 · 1 93% - 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.

Reviews for FRNCH 2

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.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before FRNCH 2. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for FRNCH 2 in Winter 2026 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 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. Enforced requisite: course 1 with grade of C- or better. 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

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 17 and 25 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 17 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 FRNCH 2 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Winter 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 5 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 · Miller, J.B. and Bjekovic, N. · 25 of 28 enrolled

Unchanged over 2 minutes

25 of 28 · 3 left

Both readings say 25 of 28.

27 Aug 03:0527 Aug 03:06
1 hour plotted. dibs read it.25 of 28 enrolled at the newest reading, about 1 month ago, with 3 left. Seats from 27 Aug 03:05 to 27 Aug 03:06, 25 to 25. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a count that did not move here was checked and did not move.

Lec 2 · Duval, E. · 19 of 25 enrolled

Unchanged over 2 minutes

19 of 25 · 6 left

Both readings say 19 of 25.

27 Aug 03:0527 Aug 03:06
1 hour plotted. dibs read it.19 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, about 1 month ago, with 6 left. Seats from 27 Aug 03:05 to 27 Aug 03:06, 19 to 19. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a count that did not move here was checked and did not move.

Lec 3 · Heaner, M. and Bjekovic, N. · 23 of 25 enrolled

Unchanged over 2 minutes

23 of 25 · 2 left

Both readings say 23 of 25.

27 Aug 03:0527 Aug 03:06
1 hour plotted. dibs read it.23 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, about 1 month ago, with 2 left. Seats from 27 Aug 03:05 to 27 Aug 03:06, 23 to 23. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a count that did not move here was checked and did not move.

Lec 4 · Duval, E. · 17 of 25 enrolled

Unchanged over 2 minutes

17 of 25 · 8 left

Both readings say 17 of 25.

27 Aug 03:0527 Aug 03:06
1 hour plotted. dibs read it.17 of 25 enrolled at the newest reading, about 1 month ago, with 8 left. Seats from 27 Aug 03:05 to 27 Aug 03:06, 17 to 17. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a count that did not move here was checked and did not move.

Lec 5 · Tuiet, P. and Bjekovic, N. · 28 of 28 enrolled

Unchanged over 2 minutes

28 of 28 · no seats left

Both readings say 28 of 28.

27 Aug 03:0527 Aug 03:06
1 hour plotted. dibs read it.28 of 28 enrolled at the newest reading, about 1 month ago, and no seats left. Seats from 27 Aug 03:05 to 27 Aug 03:06, 28 to 28. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a count that did not move here was checked and did not move.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

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.