Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Spring 2027
Introductory Topics in African Literature
Introductory course covering a special topic in African literature, focusing on a specific region or genre as indicated by the title and description.
offering recorded3 credits
Summary
1 / 6
Past student reviews · Tobi Idowu
The workload included reading three books, daily discussions, weekly journals, and a final research essay.
What you’ll be able to do
Recognize canonical authors and texts, historical forms, genres, and structures, and recognize aesthetic and cultural concerns in Africa and its diasporas.
Demonstrate their understanding of major theories, approaches, concepts, and current and classical research findings in African and diaspora literary and cultural studies.
Develop a level of proficiency in the different “ways of knowing” Africa through literatures.
Understand their own learning processes and possess the capacity to intentionally seek, evaluate, and learn from information, and recognize and reduce bias in their thinking.
Effectively retrieve and comprehend primary sources in English and secondary sources in literary criticism.
Communicate effectively through essays, oral presentations, and discussion, so they may share their knowledge, wisdom, and values with others across social and professional settings.
Show knowledge of conventional rhetorical strategies and integrate research by other authors while distinguishing between their own ideas and those of others.
Discuss literature from various perspectives, formulate ideas and make connections between literary concepts and themes.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
208208 letter grades
A68.3%68.3%
AB20.2%20.2%
B7.2%7.2%
BC1.9%1.9%
C1.0%1.0%
D0.5%0.5%
F1.0%1.0%
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Prerequisites
Course mapNone
“Used by” includes alternatives; linked courses may have other requirements. This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
Prerequisite text tree
- None
Professors
Spring 2027AE
Ainehi Edoro
About this rating
Raw average: 2.39/5 from 23 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
LUIS MADUREIRA is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
SAMUEL ENGLAND is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 24 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 24 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Tobi Idowu
One student found the online summer format easy and recommended the course for its manageable scope.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 86.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Tobi Idowu
The workload included reading three books, daily discussions, weekly journals, and a final research essay.
Past student reviews · Tobi Idowu
One student appreciated the flexibility to choose a personal topic for the final essay on African immigration.
Topics
- Special topics in African literature, specifically regions or genres.
- Theories, approaches, and research findings in African and diaspora literary and cultural studies.
Skills
- Retrieve and comprehend primary sources in English and secondary sources in literary criticism.
- Apply conventional rhetorical strategies and integrate research while distinguishing own ideas from others.
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A86.4%86.4%
AB0.0%0.0%
B4.5%4.5%
BC4.5%4.5%
C4.5%4.5%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
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Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Introductory Topics in African Literature
Recorded 2026-10-29Contemporary African Fiction
Recorded 2026-10-29Coming of Age Stories
Recorded 2026-10-29Raw records
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