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ETHNMUS M50A

Jazz in American Culture: Late 19th Century through 1940s

5 units Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 11 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 77 minutes ago.

Also listed as GJ STDS M50A (open, 37 of 45 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.

Grades

3.83

Average grade awarded in ETHNMUS M50A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

90%

of the 534 letter grades

D, F or W

1.9%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

2%

9 of 9 students passed

The registrar's own records: 534 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 3.81 to 3.86.

Historical grades for BOLIN, MARC TIMOTHY, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A+ 316 · 59.2%
  • A 136 · 25.5%
  • A- 31 · 5.8%
  • B+ 16 · 3.0%
  • B 13 · 2.4%
  • B- 5 · 0.9%
  • C+ 4 · 0.7%
  • C 2 · 0.4%
  • C- 1 · 0.2%
  • D 1 · 0.2%
  • D- 2 · 0.4%
  • F 7 · 1.3%
  • P 9 of 544
  • I 1 of 544

Percentages are of the 534 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
BOLIN, MARC TIMOTHY reviews ↗ 3.83 3.83 534 3 90% very light Open, 189 seats left
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.

Reviews for ETHNMUS M50A

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.

What the work looks like

  • 2 exams, said by 4 reviewers
  • Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
  • 1 paper, said by 3 reviewers
  • 1 project, said by 4 reviewers
  • Group works mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer

Read from 26 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.

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In Falls

Ran in 3 of the last 3 Falls.

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 Global Jazz Studies M50A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Course M50A is not requisite to M50B. Survey of development of jazz in American culture. Discussion of different compositional/performance techniques and approaches that distinguish different sub-styles of jazz from one another, as well as key historical figures that shaped development of jazz from its early years through modern jazz. Important historical social issues (segregation, Depression, World War II, Civil Rights Movement) that intersect with history of U.S. and jazz music. 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 12 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 124 and 219 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 124 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 ETHNMUS M50A 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 · Bolin, M.T. · 86 of 275 enrolled

Filled by 14 over about 2 months

86 of 275 · 189 left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 01:471 Oct 15:02
dibs read 168 of the 631 hours its hourly record covers, 27%, and did not look in 463. dibs had no hourly record before 5 Sep, which is the other 453 of 1084 plotted.86 of 275 enrolled at the newest reading, 77 minutes ago, with 189 left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 15:02, 72 to 86. dibs read 168 of the 631 hours its hourly record here covers, 27%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 463 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 5 September at 09:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 453 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.