Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.59 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Selected Topics in African American Culture
Introductory course covering specific topics in African American culture.
offering recorded3 credits
Summary
1 / 5
Past student reviews · Thulani Davis
The workload included 75-minute lectures followed by 50 to 100 pages of reading per week, with grades based on essays and attendance.
Grade history
↗ average GPA
1,3421,342 letter grades
A68.6%68.6%
AB18.8%18.8%
B7.2%7.2%
BC1.9%1.9%
C1.8%1.8%
D1.0%1.0%
F0.7%0.7%
All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors
Prerequisites
Course mapNone
- None
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Prerequisite text tree
- None
Professors
Spring 2027About this rating
Raw average: 3.40/5 from 42 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.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.83 GPA, 93.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
CG
Carl Grant
About this rating
Raw average: 2.38/5 from 16 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.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ANTHONY BLACK is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
CARL GRANT is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
ETHELENE WHITMIRE is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOHANNA ALMIRON is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MOSI IFATUNJI is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
THULANI DAVIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2026. 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 / 30 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 60 | 0 |
| LEC 003 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 25 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Thulani Davis
Students described the course as requiring substantial reading and strict adherence to scholarly sources for academic success.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.43 GPA, 74.6% A/AB (n=67 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.79 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Thulani Davis
The workload included 75-minute lectures followed by 50 to 100 pages of reading per week, with grades based on essays and attendance.
Past student reviews · Thulani Davis
One student found the lectures monotone and the class structure confusing, noting that the syllabus was not covered in the first meeting.
Topics
- Specific topics in African American culture
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
A81.0%81.0%
AB9.5%9.5%
B9.5%9.5%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.
Selected offering source records
Selected Topics in African American Culture
Recorded 2026-10-14Multiculturalism & Soc Justice
Recorded 2026-10-14African American Biography
Recorded 2026-10-14Afrofuturism and Popular Cult
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance
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