LIN

College of Arts and Letters · Michigan State University
14,887 grades23 courses72 professors44 terms

Department and course prefixes as Michigan State University lists them in its own catalog.

3.18
average GPA across 14,887 grades
−4% vs. Michigan State University overall (3.30)
81%
A or B
of 14,887 grades
8.7%
D, F or withdrew
of 14,902 enrolled
A53.7%
B26.9%
C10.9%
Every term against the 3.18 department average 44 terms
Fall 2011Spring 2026
Most taken
Courses with a grade record · 23
CourseDistributionGPAvs. deptGrades
200 level5 courses
LIN 200 · Introduction to Language
2.95 −7% vs. dept 3,859
LIN 225 · Language and Gender
3.37 +6% vs. dept 892
LIN 226 · Language and the Animals
3.71 +16% vs. dept 31
LIN 230 · Languages of the World
3.55 +11% vs. dept 99
400 level12 courses
LIN 401 · Introduction to Linguistics
3.17 −0% vs. dept 3,935
LIN 427 · Laboratory Phonetics
2.94 −8% vs. dept 31
LIN 434 · Introduction to Syntax
2.72 −15% vs. dept 602
LIN 437 · Semantics and Pragmatics
3.34 +5% vs. dept 444
LIN 450 · Child Language Acquisition
3.14 −1% vs. dept 235
LIN 455 · Neurolinguistics
3.49 +10% vs. dept 696
LIN 463 · Intro to Cognitive Science
3.36 +5% vs. dept 1,824
LIN 471 · Sociolinguistics
3.24 +2% vs. dept 677
LIN 491 · Special Topics
3.41 +7% vs. dept 115
800 level6 courses
LIN 824 · Phonological Theory I
3.93 +23% vs. dept 21
LIN 834 · Syntactic Theory I
3.70 +16% vs. dept 20
LIN 891 · Special Topics
3.90 +22% vs. dept 39
LIN 892 · Seminar in Linguistics
4.00 +26% vs. dept 11
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