UCLA African American Studies Courses

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Grades awarded Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, every instructor,

A course with no letter grades has no average to report, which is not the same as a course that grades badly.

Lower division 16

Lower division courses in African American Studies
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	Fall 2026
1	Introduction to Black Studies GE	3.70 1,361 grades	11 sections
2A	Africa and Middle East	3.76 26 grades	Not offered
2B	Race and U.S. Military Intervention in Africa	3.79 247 grades	4 sections
2C	Black Folks Kung Fu Fightin': Black America, Martial Arts, and Popular Culture GE	3.48 40 grades	Not offered
M5	Social Organization of Black Communities GE	3.87 518 grades	Not offered
6	Trends in Black Intellectual Thought GE	3.60 386 grades	Not offered
M8A	Elementary Tigrinya	3.85 10 grades ·	Not offered
M9A	Elementary Amharic	3.82 10 grades ·	Not offered
M10A	History of Africa to 1800 GE	3.45 81 grades	Not offered
M12B	African American Musical Heritage	2.75 10 grades ·	Not offered
M18	Leadership and Student-Initiated Retention	3.91 78 grades	Not offered
19	Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars		Not offered
M25	Perceptions of Blackness in the Ancient World GE	no grade history	Not offered
88S	Seeking Sakhu: Introduction to Pan-African Black Psychology		Not offered
96W	Variable Topics in Black Studies: Seminar 1	3.72 69 grades	1 section
98T	All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Media, Visual Culture, and Power of Representation	3.90 22 grades	Not offered

Upper division 43

Upper division courses in African American Studies
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	Fall 2026
M103A	African American Theater History: Slavery to Mid-1800s GE	3.67 14 grades ·	Not offered
M103B	African American Theater History: Minstrel Stage to Rise of American Musical	3.64 13 grades ·	Not offered
M103J	Contemporary Black Theater: Modern Civil Rights Era to Black Lives Matter and Beyond	3.75 14 grades ·	Not offered
M104A	Early African American Literature	3.36 173 grades	Not offered
M104B	African American Literature from Harlem Renaissance to 1960s	3.75 54 grades	Not offered
M104C	African American Literature of 1960s and 1970s	3.50 14 grades ·	Not offered
M104E	Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Lecture 1	3.40 44 grades	1 section
105B	Issues in Pan-African Biography and Autobiography	3.89 71 grades	Not offered
105C	Africa, African Americans, and History of Capitalism	3.90 65 grades	Not offered
106B	Militarism, International Security, and African American Political Thought	3.92 59 grades	Not offered
M107	Cultural History of Rap GE	3.32 81 grades	Not offered
108	Jazz and Political Imagination	3.77 49 grades	Not offered
110A	Race, Science, and Society	3.62 201 grades	Not offered
110B	Reproducing While Black: Politics of Black Reproduction	3.86 152 grades	1 section
110C	Black Health Matters: Wellness, Health, and Self-Care	3.94 46 grades	1 section
112A	Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic	3.81 1,101 grades	7 sections
112B	Aboard Mothership: Introduction to Afrofuturism	3.83 511 grades	Not offered
M113D	Spoken Word Workshop: Creative Writing and Performance Practicum	3.85 10 grades ·	Not offered
M115	We Gone Be Alright: Developing Next Generation of Black Organizers	3.63 50 grades	Not offered
M116A	African American Musical Heritage GE	2.99 37 grades	5 sections
M116B	African American Musical Heritage GE	no grade history	Not offered
117	Ecologies of Empire, Liberation, and Resistance	3.50 19 grades ·	5 sections
M121	Afro-Indigenous History: from Enslavement and Settlement to Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Sovereignty	3.93 169 grades	Not offered
M124	Comparative Racialization and Indigeneity	3.79 57 grades	1 section
M148	Politics of Struggle: Race, Solidarity, and Resistance	3.65 12 grades ·	Not offered
M154C	Black Experience in Latin America and Caribbean I	3.29 174 grades	Not offered
M155	Afro-Latina/o Experience(s) in U.S.	3.61 33 grades	Not offered
157	Rastafari World Making	no grade history	1 section
M158B	Introduction to Afro-American History	3.72 169 grades	1 section
M158C	Introduction to Afro-American History	3.84 96 grades	Not offered
M159P	Constructing Race	3.26 70 grades	Not offered
M167	Worker Center Movement: Next Wave Organizing for Justice for Immigrant Workers	3.85 10 grades ·	Not offered
C168	Black Queer Ecologies	no grade history	1 section
M172	Afro-American Woman in U.S.	3.76 21 grades	Not offered
M173	Nonviolence and Social Movements	3.79 159 grades	Not offered
175	Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare	3.48 24 grades	Not offered
176	Race, Racism, and Law	3.79 30 grades	Not offered
184A	Research in Black Life, Institutions, and Culture	3.94 53 grades	1 section
184B	Research in Black Life, Institutions, and Culture II	3.94 41 grades	Not offered
184C	Research in Black Life, Institutions and Culture III: Comparative Black Studies Research Perspectives and Methods	3.94 40 grades	Not offered
188A	Special Courses in African American Studies: Lecture 1	3.70 206 grades	1 section
C191	Variable Topics Research Seminars: Afro-American Studies	3.86 13 grades ·	4 sections
198A	Honors Research in Afro-American Studies	no grade history	1 section

Graduate 9

Graduate courses in African American Studies
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	Fall 2026
201A	Survey of Black Studies Research: Themes, Issues, and Concepts	3.69 10 grades ·	1 section
241	Special Topics in Afro-American Studies	3.91 37 grades	Not offered
C266B	Future of Work in Decarcerated California II: Applied Research and Policy Analysis for Implementation of Justice Transformation	3.87 13 grades ·	Not offered
C266	Future of Work in Decarcerated California	3.89 17 grades ·	Not offered
C268	Black Queer Ecologies	no grade history	1 section
C291	Special Topics in Afro-American Studies	3.86 11 grades ·	4 sections
596	Directed Readings and Tutorials	no grade history	29 sections
597	Preparation for MA Comprehensive Examination	no grade history	26 sections
598	Research for and Preparation of MA Thesis	no grade history	19 sections