AF AMER 1
Introduction to Black Studies
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 10 discussions. 1 discussion is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours 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 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 | 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 |
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.
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
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 11 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 120 of 120 · 1 over enrolled
Instructor
Bell, S.A.
3.70Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 1,361 letter gradesSeat risk
high risk10 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1E, Time TBA. Lecture reads closed, so its 1 open discussion cannot be reached from here. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 10 discussions
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Closed
20 of 20 enrolled
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20 of 20 enrolled
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20 of 20 enrolled
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20 of 20 enrolled
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Open
1 seat left.
19 of 20 enrolled
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Closed
20 of 20 · 1 over enrolled
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Closed by the department
no enrollment count published
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no enrollment count published
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no enrollment count published
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Closed by the department
1 enrolled
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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 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.
Lec 1 · Bell, S.A. · 120 of 120 · 1 over enrolled
Nothing read since 18 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 19.
How readings and alerts work
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