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Dibs Fall 2026

ETHNMUS M110A

African American Musical Heritage

(Formerly numbered M12A.) (Same as African American Studies M116A 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
3.26
n = 63 · 2 terms · ± 0.063
A range
41%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
3%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
4.8%
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 Open
39 of 57
68% full
 seats likely TR 11:00am-12:50pm Keyes, C.L.
3.18n=63 · 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.

  • 2023S
  • 4524W
Enrolment by term: 23S 20, 24W 45
Peak 45 Most recent 45 in 24W 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 6 · 9.2%
  • A 10 · 15.4%
  • A- 10 · 15.4%
  • B+ 12 · 18.5%
  • B 10 · 15.4%
  • B- 3 · 4.6%
  • C+ 3 · 4.6%
  • C 4 · 6.2%
  • C- 2 · 3.1%
  • D+ 1 · 1.5%
  • D 1 · 1.5%
  • F 1 · 1.5%
  • P 2 · 3.1%

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 3.18 3.16 63 2 41%

“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