AF AMER 1
Introduction to Black Studies
Lecture and discussion.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 lecture and 8 discussions. 1 lecture and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.70
Average grade awarded in AF AMER 1. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
81%
of the 1,361 letter grades
D, F or W
2.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
91% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,361 grades over 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 3.49 to 3.79.
Historical grades for MONTEIRO, NATALINA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 42 · 33.1%
- A 31 · 24.4%
- A- 15 · 11.8%
- B+ 8 · 6.3%
- B 9 · 7.1%
- B- 10 · 7.9%
- C+ 6 · 4.7%
- C 1 · 0.8%
- C- 2 · 1.6%
- F 3 · 2.4%
- P 2 of 129
Percentages are of the 127 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDU, UGO FELICIA reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.68 | 498 | 3 | 80% | light | not teaching it |
| STREETER, CAROLINE ANNE reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.73 | 414 | 2 | 83% | light | not teaching it |
| PIERRE, JEMIMA reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.77 | 322 | 2 | 85% | light | not teaching it |
| MONTEIRO, NATALINA reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.52 | 127 | 1 | 69% | - | Open, 3 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.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 5 mentions in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 2 mentions in past reviews
Based on 24 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction of methods, theories, conceptual frameworks, and key debates in black studies. Interrogation of how race structures notions of identity and meaning of blackness in relation to class, gender, and sexuality; essential role of African people in development of capitalism, liberalism, and democracy; what various disciplinary lenses and epistemologies (history, literature, sociology, geography, cultural studies, political theory, philosophy, etc.) reveal about experiences of black people in modern world. Key thinkers and ideas from across humanities and social sciences are highlighted. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open3 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 123 of 180 enrolled
Instructor
3.54Predicted GPA
Historical records for MONTEIRO, NATALINA; 127 letter gradesSeat risk
-8 discussions, 3 open: Dis 1B, Time TBA, Dis 1C, Time TBA, and Dis 1D, Time TBA.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 8 discussions
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Waitlist
0 of 5 places taken.
30 of 30 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
29 of 30 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
29 of 30 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
29 of 30 enrolled
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Waitlist
0 of 5 places taken.
no enrollment count published
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Closed by the department
2 enrolled
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Closed by the department
no enrollment count published
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Closed by the department
no enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 94 and 193 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 105 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 1 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 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 · Monteiro, N. · 123 of 180 enrolled
Unchanged over less than a minute
Both readings say 123 of 180.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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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