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ARTS ED 20

Introduction to Community Engagement through Arts

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Introduction to fields of community engagement and arts education informed by philosophies of progressive education and social justice movements. By looking at community engagement as issue of equity and social justice, examination of basic theories of creativity, artistic development, and community partnership, and history, philosophies, politics, and sociocultural trends of community engagement in American society. Attendance at UCLA arts presentations and introduction to creative process. Readings and discussions to understand community engagement and arts education as crucial elements of comprehensive education, with emphasis on writing process, including regular writing assignments that require students to read, analyze, critique, and evaluate community arts practices and arts education scholarship. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.74
n = 154 · 3 terms · ± 0.042
A range
84%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
5%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.9%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

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.

  • 5222S
  • 5124S
  • 5925S
Enrolment by term: 22S 52, 24S 51, 25S 59
Peak 59 Most recent 59 in 25S 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 34 · 21.0%
  • A 76 · 46.9%
  • A- 20 · 12.3%
  • B+ 7 · 4.3%
  • B 8 · 4.9%
  • B- 1 · 0.6%
  • C+ 1 · 0.6%
  • C 4 · 2.5%
  • D 1 · 0.6%
  • F 2 · 1.2%
  • P 8 · 4.9%

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
PERSAUD, DAVIDA LARISSA 3.74 3.74 104 2 86%
KANE, KEVIN MICHAEL 3.73 3.72 50 1 82%

“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