CLUSTER M27A
Global Islam
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. 1 lecture and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 77 minutes ago.
Also listed as ISLM ST M27A (closed by the department): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
This is a year, not a class
Clusters run across three quarters, fall, winter, then the spring seminar, and UCLA counts the credit on completing the yearlong cluster: four GE requirements and the Writing II requirement. Signing up for the first quarter is signing up for the year.
Dibs only reads Fall 2026, so the later parts show no sections here: that is this term, not the sequence ending. What you keep if you take only part of a cluster is a question for the Cluster Program, not something these numbers answer.
Grades
3.75
Average grade awarded in CLUSTER M27A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
87%
of the 412 letter grades
D, F or W
2.9%
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: 412 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 3.71 to 3.80.
Historical grades for GREEN, NILE SPENCER, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 26 · 28.3%
- A 37 · 40.2%
- A- 15 · 16.3%
- B+ 4 · 4.3%
- B 6 · 6.5%
- C- 1 · 1.1%
- D- 1 · 1.1%
- F 2 · 2.2%
Percentages are of the 92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YARBROUGH, LUKE BENSON reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.76 | 299 | 3 | 87% | light | not teaching it |
| CHISM, CHRISTINE N reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.73 | 187 | 2 | 86% | light | not teaching it |
| ALI, MOHSIN MALIK reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.75 | 113 | 1 | 88% | - | not teaching it |
| SLYOMOVICS, SUSAN reviews ↗ | 3.79 | 3.80 | 112 | 1 | 88% | - | not teaching it |
| GREEN, NILE SPENCER reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.71 | 92 | 1 | 85% | - | Open, 25 seats left |
| GOLDBERG, JESSICA LILLIAN reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.71 | 92 | 1 | 85% | - | 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.
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
- No exams, said by 1 reviewer
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- 3 papers, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 4 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.
In Falls
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Falls.
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
(Same as Islamic Studies M27A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M27A is enforced requisite to M27B, which is enforced requisite to M27CW. Introduction to Islam, immensely diverse global tradition which is second largest religion. Study of Islam and Muslims within framework of study of global religious traditions and emphasis on profound diversity of localized belief and practice found across world. Examination of Islam's evolution across 15 centuries, from late antiquity--when it emerged as localized religion in Central Arabia--to modern era where it is practice from U.S. to Indonesia. Concentration on broad analytical categories in study of religion such as text, culture, history, and prophecy. Students transition to more complex analyses through chronological overview of Islamic history. Study also of case studies of Muslim global networks in arenas such as art, music, literature, and political thought. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 12:30pm-1:45pmOpen
Green, N.S., Yarbrough, L.B., and Chism, C.N.
3.72predicted, this instructor · 92 grades25 seats left. 71 of 96 enrolled high risk
4 discussions, 3 open: Dis 1B, R 6:00pm-7:50pm, Dis 1C, F 12:00pm-1:50pm, and Dis 1D, F 2:00pm-3:50pm.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
R 4:00pm-5:50pm · Covel Commons 210
Closed23 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1B
R 6:00pm-7:50pm · Covel Commons 210
Open14 seats left.
9 of 23 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Open2 seats left.
23 of 25 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1343
Open9 seats left.
16 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 92 and 113 a term over 4 terms, summer excluded, most recently 92 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking CLUSTER M27A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Green, N.S., Yarbrough, L.B., and Chism, C.N. · 71 of 96 enrolled
Filled by 42 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.