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ETHNMUS 46W

India through Music

Lecture, five hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, nine hours. Requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 46. Exploration of major aspects of society, history, and culture in India through music. There is abundance of incredibly rich musical culture in this region. Introduction to as much diversity as possible, spanning villages to cities and global contexts; high- and low-brow musics; those spanning problematic categories of folk, classical, and popular; and those from powerful as well as oppressed and marginalized peoples. Music as lens to look more deeply into social and cultural world and to explore layers of history ranging form Persianate empires, British Empire, nationhood, and contemporary globalization. Highlights lines of power in particular, notably, those of caste, class, gender, colonialism, and nationalism. Minoritized and disenfranchised people and their music are as prominent as dominant styles and provide contextualization and critique. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.88
n = 104 · 2 terms · ± 0.051
A range
91%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— 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 Cancelled
—
— 		no history MW 11:00am-12:50pm No instructors
3.88n=104 · course average

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.

  • 4623F
  • 5924F
Enrolment by term: 23F 46, 24F 59
Peak 59 Most recent 59 in 24F 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 19 · 18.1%
  • A 65 · 61.9%
  • A- 11 · 10.5%
  • B+ 4 · 3.8%
  • B 4 · 3.8%
  • C+ 1 · 1.0%
  • I 1 · 1.0%

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
MORCOM, ANNA FRANCES 3.89 3.89 104 2 91%

“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