JAPAN 4
Intermediate Modern Japanese
Grades
3.59
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 4. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
74%
of the 187 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
18 of 18 students passed
The registrar's own records: 187 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.34 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 20 · 10.7%
- A 69 · 36.9%
- A- 49 · 26.2%
- B+ 19 · 10.2%
- B 12 · 6.4%
- B- 4 · 2.1%
- C+ 3 · 1.6%
- C 5 · 2.7%
- C- 5 · 2.7%
- F 1 · 0.5%
- P 18 of 212
- S 7 of 212
Percentages are of the 187 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAWANISHI, YUMIKO reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.70 | 105 | 4 | 82% | light | not teaching it |
| NOGAMI, YOKO reviews ↗ | 3.40 | 3.33 | 51 | 3 | 57% | heavy | not teaching it |
| TAKEUCHI, MAI reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.67 | 31 | 2 | 74% | - | 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.
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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.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before JAPAN 4. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for JAPAN 4 in Spring 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for JAPAN 3, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 3 or 8 with grade of C or better or Japanese placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Japanese to qualify for more advanced courses. Designed to strengthen communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Grammar reviews, vocabulary building skills, language learning skills, and sociocultural knowledge. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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