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ETHNMUS 45

Music of Bollywood and Beyond

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. History and development of South Asian film scores in their filmic context, especially omnipresent songs that most distinctively characterize this genre. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.89
n = 248 · 4 terms · ± 0.034
A range
94%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
6%
93% of those passed
D / F / W
0.8%
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.

  • 6822S
  • 6923S
  • 6324S
  • 6425S
Enrolment by term: 22S 68, 23S 69, 24S 63, 25S 64
Peak 69 Most recent 64 in 25S 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 136 · 51.5%
  • A 83 · 31.4%
  • A- 13 · 4.9%
  • B+ 5 · 1.9%
  • B 4 · 1.5%
  • B- 3 · 1.1%
  • C+ 1 · 0.4%
  • C 1 · 0.4%
  • D 1 · 0.4%
  • F 1 · 0.4%
  • P 14 · 5.3%
  • NP 1 · 0.4%
  • I 1 · 0.4%

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
CATLIN, AMY R 3.90 3.90 248 4 94%

“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