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Dibs Fall 2026

CHIN 50

Chinese Civilization

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50W. Knowledge of Chinese not required. Introduction to most important aspects of Chinese culture. Topics include early Chinese civilization, historical development of Chinese society, issues of ethnicity, Chinese language and philosophy, and early scientific and technological innovation. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.60
n = 1,020 · 7 terms · ± 0.017
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
16%
95% of those passed
D / F / W
2.7%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
146 of 147
99% full
 fills TR 11:00am-12:15pm Li, M.
3.70n=296 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 19622W
  • 19622S
  • 19623W
  • 17624W
  • 16024S
  • 21224F
  • 8725S
Enrolment by term: 22W 196, 22S 196, 23W 196, 24W 176, 24S 160, 24F 212, 25S 87
Peak 212 Most recent 87 in 25S 7 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 192 · 15.7%
  • A 393 · 32.1%
  • A- 161 · 13.1%
  • B+ 107 · 8.7%
  • B 62 · 5.1%
  • B- 36 · 2.9%
  • C+ 17 · 1.4%
  • C 19 · 1.5%
  • C- 9 · 0.7%
  • D+ 3 · 0.2%
  • D 2 · 0.2%
  • D- 1 · 0.1%
  • F 18 · 1.5%
  • P 189 · 15.4%
  • NP 9 · 0.7%
  • I 4 · 0.3%
  • DR 4 · 0.3%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
WU, YINGHUI 3.76 3.76 348 2 83%
SCHABERG, DAVID C 3.42 3.41 310 2 63%
LI, MIN 3.70 3.70 296 2 79%
KAO, YUPING 3.21 3.14 66 1 44%

“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.

By term