AF AMER 1
Introduction to Black Studies
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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for AF AMER 1, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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.