CLUSTER M27A
Global Islam
Also listed as ISLM ST M27A: 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 Summer Session C 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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 160 · 38.8%
- A 151 · 36.7%
- A- 47 · 11.4%
- B+ 16 · 3.9%
- B 14 · 3.4%
- B- 4 · 1.0%
- C+ 1 · 0.2%
- C 5 · 1.2%
- C- 2 · 0.5%
- D+ 3 · 0.7%
- D 2 · 0.5%
- D- 2 · 0.5%
- F 5 · 1.2%
Percentages are of the 412 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 | Summer Session C 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% | - | not teaching it |
| 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.
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 Summer Session C 2026
From the people who took it
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