CCAS M185
Whose Monument Where: Course on Public Art
Also listed as ART M185: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in CCAS M185. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
80%
of the 128 letter grades
D, F or W
3.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 128 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 3.63 to 3.67.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 57 · 44.5%
- A 38 · 29.7%
- A- 7 · 5.5%
- B+ 4 · 3.1%
- B 7 · 5.5%
- B- 5 · 3.9%
- C+ 1 · 0.8%
- C 3 · 2.3%
- C- 1 · 0.8%
- D 2 · 1.6%
- D- 2 · 1.6%
- F 1 · 0.8%
- P 2 of 130
Percentages are of the 128 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ GASPAR DE ALBA, ALMA reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 128 | 2 | 80% | - | 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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for CCAS M185 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Art M185 and World Arts and Cultures M126.) Lecture, four hours. Recommended corequisite: course M186A, M186B, or M186C. Examination of public monuments in U.S. as basis for cultural insight and critique of American values from perspective of artist. Use of urban Los Angeles as textbook in urban space issues such as who is public, what is public space at end of 20th century, what defines neighborhoods, and do different ethnic populations use public space differently. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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