Spring 2027

Artistic/cultural Images of Black Women

Explores artistic and cultural images of Black women and feminine creativity in the arts within historical, cultural, social, and political contexts.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Melanie Herzog

The course featured weekly writing assignments that were easy and quick, with no exams required.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze and interpret works of art by African American women artists in relation to historical, social, political, and cultural contexts.

  • Apply critical thinking and analytical skills regarding gender, race, and other social categories of identity and oppression to the study of visual images by and about Black women.

  • Describe the role of art and visual representation in the creation, development, and continuing legacy of race- and gender-based discrimination.

  • Describe the role of art and visual culture in African American women artists’ resistance to historical systemic and institutional oppression.

  • Identify ways in which certain images have been valued or devalued, and analyze how these differences have promulgated disparities in contemporary American society.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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AFROAMER/GEN&WS 267

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MELANIE HERZOG is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Melanie Herzog

Herzog was described as caring and worked to ensure every student had a voice in the class.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.85 GPA, 93.6% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.77 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=34 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Melanie Herzog

The course featured weekly writing assignments that were easy and quick, with no exams required.

Past student reviews · Melanie Herzog

Lectures sometimes felt long and slow, but attendance was tracked and graded.

Topics

  • Cultural images by and about Black women
  • Feminine creativity in the arts
  • Art and visual culture as resistance to systemic and institutional oppression

Skills

  • Apply critical thinking and analytical skills regarding gender, race, and other social categories of identity and oppression to the study of visual images.
  • Identify ways in which certain images have been valued or devalued, and analyze how these differences have promulgated disparities in contemporary American society.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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