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FRNCH 12Rumba and Beyond: Music and Popular Culture in Francophone Africa

French · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Exploration of music and popular cultures in the Francophone world. Francophone music offers a rich window into the histories, identities, and creativity of French-speaking communities across the world.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

  • Spring 2026
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Enforced requisite: course 3.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data
FRNCH 3

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

FRNCH 12

  • FRNCH 3Elementary French
    • FRNCH 2Elementary French
      • FRNCH 1Elementary French

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

FRNCH 12

  • FRNCH 114ASurvey of French Literature: Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • FRNCH 114BSurvey of French Literature: 17th and 18th Centuries
  • FRNCH 138Contemporary French Theory

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.