ENGL M104A
Early African American Literature
Also listed as AF AMER M104A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.66
Average grade awarded in ENGL M104A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
78%
of the 214 letter grades
D, F or W
1.4%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 214 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.25 to 3.81.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 19 · 8.9%
- A 91 · 42.5%
- A- 56 · 26.2%
- B+ 25 · 11.7%
- B 9 · 4.2%
- B- 4 · 1.9%
- C+ 4 · 1.9%
- C 1 · 0.5%
- C- 2 · 0.9%
- D+ 1 · 0.5%
- F 2 · 0.9%
- P 2 of 218
- I 1 of 218
- NR 1 of 218
Percentages are of the 214 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and no report (NR).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YARBOROUGH, RICHARD A reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.69 | 202 | 5 | 79% | - | not teaching it |
| MAZZAFERRO, ALEXANDER M reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.25 | 12 · | 1 | 58% | - | 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.
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What comes first
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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 M104A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introductory survey of African American literature from 18th century through World War I, including oral and written forms (folktales, spirituals, sermons; fiction, poetry, essays), by authors such as Phillis Wheatley, Frances Harper, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, and Pauline Hopkins. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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