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Dibs Fall 2026

AF AMER M116A

African American Musical Heritage

(Formerly numbered M12A.) (Same as Ethnomusicology M110A and Global Jazz Studies M110A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Sociocultural history and survey of African American music covering Africa and its impact on Americas; music of 17th through 19th centuries; minstrelsy and its impact on representation of blacks in film, television, and theater; religious music, including hymns, spirituals, and gospel; black music of Caribbean and Central and South America; and music of black Los Angeles. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.24
n = 24 · 2 terms · ± 0.090
A range
25%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
11%
67% of those passed
D / F / W
0.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Waitlist
20 of 20
100% full
 fills TR 11:00am-12:50pm Keyes, C.L.
3.12n=24 · this instructor

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.

  • 1023S
  • 1824W
Enrolment by term: 23S 10, 24W 18
Peak 18 Most recent 18 in 24W 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 1 · 3.6%
  • A 1 · 3.6%
  • A- 4 · 14.3%
  • B+ 4 · 14.3%
  • B 6 · 21.4%
  • B- 4 · 14.3%
  • C+ 2 · 7.1%
  • C 1 · 3.6%
  • C- 1 · 3.6%
  • P 2 · 7.1%
  • NP 1 · 3.6%
  • I 1 · 3.6%

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
KEYES, CHERYL L 3.12 3.05 24 2 25%

“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