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AF AMER 1

Introduction to Black Studies

5 units Historical Analysis Social Analysis Literary and Cultural Analysis

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 10 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 2 days ago.

Grades

3.70

Average grade awarded in AF AMER 1. Not a 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 3.49 to 3.79.

  • 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). 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

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
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

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for AF AMER 1

In Falls

Ran in 5 of the last 5 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

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 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 11 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

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.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

Lec 1 · The Staff · 102 of 114 enrolled

Filled by 1 over 14 days

11698
17 Aug 12:32capacity 11431 Aug 06:44