GJ STDS M110A
African American Musical Heritage
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 4 discussions. 1 lecture and 1 discussion are open. The oldest of these readings was 77 minutes ago.
Also listed as AF AMER M116A (waitlist, 20 of 20 enrolled), ETHNMUS M110A (open, 58 of 80 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.19
Average grade awarded in GJ STDS M110A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
33%
of the 36 letter grades
D, F or W
2.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
8%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 36 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 3.12 to 3.25.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 2.8%
- A 6 · 16.7%
- A- 5 · 13.9%
- B+ 9 · 25.0%
- B 7 · 19.4%
- B- 3 · 8.3%
- C+ 2 · 5.6%
- C 2 · 5.6%
- D 1 · 2.8%
- P 3 of 39
Percentages are of the 36 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEYES, CHERYL L reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.19 | 36 | 3 | 33% | - | 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.
In Falls
Ran in 1 of the last 3 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as African American Studies M116A and Ethnomusicology 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 Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 5 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 11:00am-12:50pmOpen
Norfleet, D.M.
3.34predicted, all instructors · 36 grades1 seat left. 15 of 16 enrolled medium risk
4 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1D, R 4:00pm-4:50pm.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Schoenberg Music Building 1325
Closed4 of 4 enrolled
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Dis 1B
R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Schoenberg Music Building 1344
Closed4 of 4 enrolled
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Dis 1C
R 3:00pm-3:50pm · Schoenberg Music Building 1344
Closed4 of 4 enrolled
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Dis 1D
R 4:00pm-4:50pm · Schoenberg Music Building 1344
Open1 seat left.
3 of 4 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 12 and 15 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 15 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking GJ STDS M110A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Norfleet, D.M. · 15 of 16 enrolled
Filled by 5 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.