AF AMER 96WVariable Topics in Black Studies
African American Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Provides students with comprehensive knowledge on a select topic in African American studies and the African diaspora. Topics align with the instructor research interest covering the arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as other areas in the life sciences, public health, and physical sciences (i.e., environmental sustainability, climate justice, etc.). Student critical thinking is challenged by the written canon, while strengthening their written communication skills on a particular topic in the African American Studies major areas—cultural production, political economy, and power and ideology. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
AF AMER 96W
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
1 direct requisite. Showing 4 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.