Spring 2027

Selected Topics in African American Culture

Intensive analysis of specific cultural themes in African American experiences, focusing on contextual frameworks shaping cultural representations of race.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Langston Wilkins3.5/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.86 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the contextual frameworks that shape historical and current cultural representations of race in America

  • Describe the goals, challenges, and questions raised by the thematic and aesthetic elements of Black cultural texts

  • Articulate the significance of the construction, form, and context in the meaning of those texts

  • Communicate with others in a way that displays an understanding of racial inequities in the US

  • Write compelling and coherent arguments using methodologies employed by disciplinary scholars

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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  • Junior standing
AFROAMER 675

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Raw average: 3.00/5 from 4 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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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.86 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LANGSTON WILKINS is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024. 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 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.86 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Specific cultural themes in African American experiences.
  • Contextual frameworks shaping cultural representations of race in America.
  • Thematic and aesthetic elements of Black cultural texts.

Skills

  • Analyze cultural representations of race, describe thematic and aesthetic elements of Black cultural texts, and articulate their significance.
  • Communicate understanding of racial inequities in the US.
  • Write compelling and coherent arguments using disciplinary scholarly methodologies.

Grades

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AFROAMER 675 · Spring 2027

Selected Topics in African American Culture

Recorded 2026-10-14
AFROAMER 675 · Spring 2027

Black Music: Space & Place

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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