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ETHNMUS 30

Music and Media

Sections & times

Grades

3.34

Average grade awarded in ETHNMUS 30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

58%

of the 385 letter grades

D, F or W

4.4%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

7%

87% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 385 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.27 to 3.42.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 26 · 6.8%
  • A 101 · 26.2%
  • A- 96 · 24.9%
  • B+ 44 · 11.4%
  • B 48 · 12.5%
  • B- 25 · 6.5%
  • C+ 10 · 2.6%
  • C 14 · 3.6%
  • C- 4 · 1.0%
  • D+ 2 · 0.5%
  • D 5 · 1.3%
  • D- 1 · 0.3%
  • F 9 · 2.3%
  • P 26 of 417
  • NP 4 of 417
  • S 1 of 417
  • U 1 of 417

Percentages are of the 385 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), and unsatisfactory (U).

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Spring 2027
TAYLOR, TIMOTHY D reviews ↗ 3.34 3.34 385 4 58% average 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.

Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.

Reviews for ETHNMUS 30

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.

What the work looks like

  • 2 exams, said by 7 reviewers
  • 2 papers, said by 5 reviewers
  • 2 projects, said by 3 reviewers

Read from 22 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

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What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for ETHNMUS 30 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.

In Springs

Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of ways music is mediated to people by industry, technologies, and corporations. Survey of leading theorists of media and exploration of case studies. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Spring 2027

Not offered in Spring 2027.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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