AF AMER 96W
Variable Topics in Black Studies: Seminar 1
Needs a grade of C or better: C- does not count, and neither does a Passed grade.
Seminar.
Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
3.72
Average grade awarded in AF AMER 96W. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
81%
of the 69 letter grades
D, F or W
2.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 69 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 3.51 to 3.90.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 36 · 52.2%
- A 16 · 23.2%
- A- 4 · 5.8%
- B+ 5 · 7.2%
- B 4 · 5.8%
- B- 1 · 1.4%
- C 1 · 1.4%
- D 1 · 1.4%
- F 1 · 1.4%
Percentages are of the 69 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAYS, KYLE TRAVIS-CARRINGTON reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.72 | 69 | 3 | 81% | - | not teaching it |
| BROWN, SCOT DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.51 | 21 | 1 | 71% | - | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before AF AMER 96W. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Provides students with comprehensive knowledge on a select topic in African American studies and the African diaspora. Topics align with the instructor research interest covering the arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as other areas in the life sciences, public health, and physical sciences (i.e., environmental sustainability, climate justice, etc.). Student critical thinking is challenged by the written canon, while strengthening their written communication skills on a particular topic in the African American Studies major areas--cultural production, political economy, and power and ideology. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Sem 1 T 3:00pm-5:50pmClosed
Williams, K.L. and Mays, K.T.
3.72predicted, all instructors · 69 grades20 of 20 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 21 and 27 a term over 3 terms, summer excluded, most recently 21 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 AF AMER 96W 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.
Sem 1 · Williams, K.L. and Mays, K.T. · 20 of 20 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the seat count moved and came back.
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.
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