AF AMER 108
Jazz and Political Imagination
Grades
3.78
Average grade awarded in AF AMER 108. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 49 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
6%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 49 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.71 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 23 · 46.9%
- A 11 · 22.4%
- A- 6 · 12.2%
- B+ 6 · 12.2%
- B 1 · 2.0%
- C+ 1 · 2.0%
- C 1 · 2.0%
- P 3 of 52
Percentages are of the 49 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOLIN, MARC TIMOTHY reviews ↗ | 3.78 | 3.78 | 49 | 2 | 82% | - | 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
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. How has jazz come to symbolize so many different political tendencies—freedom and democratic values, threat to order and civil society, possibility of integration and racial harmony, Black liberation and nationalism, conservatism, surrealism, socialism, etc., throughout 20th century? What about jazz enables people to read their political aspirations and hopes in what is primarily instrumental, improvised music? Exploration of history of ideas about jazz, specifically how writers, activists, movements, and musicians understood politics of jazz. Exploration of political imaginations—here and abroad—in particular in jazz and question of freedom—social freedom, political freedom, cultural, and artistic freedom. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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