THEATER M103A
African American Theater History: Slavery to Mid-1800s
Also listed as AF AMER M103A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.13
Average grade awarded in THEATER M103A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
54%
of the 24 letter grades
D, F or W
8.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 24 grades over 1 term, 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 9 · 37.5%
- A 1 · 4.2%
- A- 3 · 12.5%
- B+ 1 · 4.2%
- B 3 · 12.5%
- B- 1 · 4.2%
- C+ 1 · 4.2%
- C 3 · 12.5%
- D- 1 · 4.2%
- F 1 · 4.2%
Percentages are of the 24 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR, DOMINIC ANTHONY reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.13 | 24 | 1 | 54% | - | 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 THEATER M103A 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 African American Studies M103A.) Lecture, three hours. Examination of early African American performance modes leading up to the advent of conventional theatrical practice as manifest by the African Grove Theatre of 1821. Examination of the sociohistorical context in which the works were created and critical essays that illustrate the development of African American performance modalities that predate the enslaved moment in various traditions. Examination of certain West African cultures as well as music, dance, and oral traditional practices that helped shape what has become African American theater. Examination also of how the construction of race shaped the development of America from a colony to an early international power. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
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