FRNCH 3
Elementary French
Lecture.
Fall 2025: 3 sections. 2 sections are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.60
Average grade awarded in FRNCH 3. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
71%
of the 707 letter grades
D, F or W
1.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
15%
98% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 707 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 3.34 to 3.87.
Historical grades for DUVAL, ELSA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 6 · 4.2%
- A 72 · 50.7%
- A- 34 · 23.9%
- B+ 13 · 9.2%
- B 11 · 7.7%
- B- 1 · 0.7%
- C+ 1 · 0.7%
- C 2 · 1.4%
- D- 1 · 0.7%
- F 1 · 0.7%
- P 22 of 168
- S 4 of 168
Percentages are of the 142 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJEKOVIC, NINA reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.57 | 265 | 6 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
| JANSMA, KIMBERLY reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.52 | 216 | 4 | 65% | average | not teaching it |
| DUVAL, ELSA reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.69 | 142 | 6 | 79% | very light | Open, 1 seat left |
| DENIE HIGNEY, LAURENCE M reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.72 | 65 | 3 | 78% | very light | not teaching it |
| GRANDHOMME, WILFRID ERWAN reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.49 | 24 | 1 | 58% | - | not teaching it |
| PRESNER, TODD S reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.84 | 19 · | 1 | 84% | - | 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.
What the work looks like
- 3 exams, said by 10 reviewers
- 3 papers, said by 6 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 presentation, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 64 reviews 23 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before FRNCH 3. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for FRNCH 3 in Fall 2025 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 Falls
Ran in 4 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, two and one half hours. Enforced requisite: course 2 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 Fall 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 Time TBACancelled
No instructors
3.60predicted, all instructors · 707 gradesno enrollment count published -
not checked yet -
Lec 2 MWF 10:00am-10:50amOpen3.68predicted, this instructor · 142 grades
1 seat left. 24 of 25 enrolled -
not checked yet -
Lec 3 MWF 11:00am-11:50amOpen3.68predicted, this instructor · 142 grades
3 seats left. 22 of 25 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 19 and 25 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 23 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 3 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
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 2 · Duval, E. · 24 of 25 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 24 of 25.
Lec 3 · Duval, E. · 22 of 25 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 22 of 25.
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.