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Dibs Fall 2026

GJ STDS M110A

African American Musical Heritage

(Formerly numbered M12A.) (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.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.36
n = 21 · 2 terms · ± 0.094
A range
29%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
13%
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
10 of 16
63% full
 could fill TR 11:00am-12:50pm Keyes, C.L.
3.23n=21 · 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.

  • 1223S
  • 1224W
Enrolment by term: 23S 12, 24W 12
Peak 12 Most recent 12 in 24W 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 1 · 4.2%
  • A 3 · 12.5%
  • A- 2 · 8.3%
  • B+ 5 · 20.8%
  • B 7 · 29.2%
  • C+ 1 · 4.2%
  • C 1 · 4.2%
  • D 1 · 4.2%
  • P 3 · 12.5%

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 3.23 3.15 21 2 29%

“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