ETHNMUS M119
Cultural History of Rap
Also listed as GJ STDS M119: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.27
Average grade awarded in ETHNMUS M119. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
46%
of the 72 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
10%
8 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 72 grades over 3 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 3 terms ran 2.91 to 3.94.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 9 · 12.5%
- A 17 · 23.6%
- A- 7 · 9.7%
- B+ 10 · 13.9%
- B 14 · 19.4%
- B- 3 · 4.2%
- C+ 4 · 5.6%
- C 5 · 6.9%
- C- 2 · 2.8%
- F 1 · 1.4%
- P 8 of 80
Percentages are of the 72 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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEYES, CHERYL L reviews ↗ | 3.29 | 3.27 | 72 | 3 | 46% | - | 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.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of 26 days ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for ETHNMUS M119 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 M107 and Global Jazz Studies M119.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to development of rap music and hip-hop culture, with emphasis on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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