AF AMER M116A
African American Musical Heritage
Also listed as ETHNMUS M110A, GJ STDS M110A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
2.75
Average grade awarded in AF AMER M116A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
27%
of the 37 letter grades
D, F or W
13.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
12%
4 of 5 students passed
The registrar's own records: 37 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 2.22 to 3.09.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 2.7%
- A 3 · 8.1%
- A- 6 · 16.2%
- B+ 5 · 13.5%
- B 7 · 18.9%
- B- 5 · 13.5%
- C+ 2 · 5.4%
- C 1 · 2.7%
- C- 3 · 8.1%
- D 1 · 2.7%
- F 3 · 8.1%
- P 4 of 44
- NP 1 of 44
- I 1 of 44
- DR 1 of 44
Percentages are of the 37 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEYES, CHERYL L reviews ↗ | 2.83 | 2.75 | 37 | 3 | 27% | - | 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.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of about 1 month 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.
From the registrar's catalog
(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.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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