AF AMER 1
Introduction to Black Studies
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 507 · 37.3%
- A 455 · 33.4%
- A- 140 · 10.3%
- B+ 89 · 6.5%
- B 58 · 4.3%
- B- 37 · 2.7%
- C+ 24 · 1.8%
- C 10 · 0.7%
- C- 15 · 1.1%
- D+ 3 · 0.2%
- D 2 · 0.1%
- F 21 · 1.5%
- P 30 of 1,409
- NP 3 of 1,409
- S 1 of 1,409
- I 12 of 1,409
- DR 1 of 1,409
- R 1 of 1,409
Percentages are of the 1,361 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), incompletes (I), withdrawals (DR), and repeats (R).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 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% | - | 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.
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
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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 2 reviewers
Read from 24 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.
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 C 2026
From the people who took it
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