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LING M4 · Lec 1

Language and Evolution

Fall 2026Clayton, J.B.5 units

Also listed as I E STD M70 (waitlist, 100 of 100 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.

Seats, time, final and grades

Seats

Closed.

20 of 20 enrolled, lecture and all discussions summed.

Meets

TR 12:30pm-1:45pm

Lecture only. You also attend a discussion, listed below.

Final

Wed 9 Dec, 3:00pm to 6:00pm

One exam for the whole class, Los Angeles time.

Read 51 minutes ago.

Grades

3.81
predicted, this instructor · 26 grades

26 letter grades, Clayton, J.B..

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Discussions

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so the seat figure above is the sum across all of them and can read open while every discussion you could actually join is full.

4 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

No discussion is open. Whatever the lecture reads, there is currently nothing here to enroll in.
  • Dis 1A

    F 10:00am-10:50am

    Ackerman, A.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1B

    F 11:00am-11:50am

    Ackerman, A.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1C

    F 12:00pm-12:50pm

    Srirangarajan, A.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1D

    F 1:00pm-1:50pm

    Srirangarajan, A.

    Closed.

When it meets

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Meets: TR 12:30pm-1:45pm

Haines Hall 118

Grades

3.81
predicted, this instructor · 26 grades
A range
88%
P/NP
7%
D/F/W
0.0%

Full grade history for LING M4

What students say

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast it fills. For what the class is actually like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Workload, very light. 5.0 of 5 for John Clayton, where 5 is lightest. Read 12 hours ago.

What the work looks like

  • Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
  • Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer

Read from 2 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

LING M4 reviews for John Clayton Reviews for all professors of LING M4

Will it still be here

high risk chance of closing before your enrollment pass.

Final enrollment per term from four years of grade data. Summer excluded: different population, different pass structure.

  • 1824S
  • 1025S
Enrollment by term: 24S 18, 25S 10

Peak 18 · most recent 25S at 10

Seats over time

Nothing read since 2 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, unchanged.

20 of 20 · no seats left in its discussions

Both readings say 20 of 20.

17 Aug 12:329 Sep 08:372 Oct 04:42 · 3 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 533 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 365. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 564 of 1097 plotted.20 of 20 enrolled at the newest reading, 3 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 2 Oct 04:42, 20 to 20. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 533 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 365 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 00:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 564 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

A dot is a reading. Recorded enrollment counts match, so the line is flat across the whole window: it says when dibs looked rather than what changed. The last dot is the last time dibs read this section, moved or not, and that was 3 hours ago. It is the last thing dibs saw, not where the count is now.

Show the readings (2)
Recorded Enrolled Capacity Status Waitlist Hours read
2 Oct 04:42 20 20 closed - 168 of 1097, 564 no hourly record
17 Aug 12:32 20 20 closed - -
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