BLKST 202Black and Free
- Units
- 0.50
- Faculty
- Arts
- Subject
- Black Studies
- Cross-listed
- COMMST 202
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
This course focuses on how Black public figures such as artists, intellectuals, and journalists in the 19th-21st centuries create and disseminate expressions of Black freedom in the public sphere and will explore how performances of Black speech in service of Black freedom is an act of borderless belonging.
Prerequisites
- Complete 1 of the following
- Students must be in level 2A or higher
- Enrolled in Black Studies Diploma, or Fundamentals of Anti-Racist Communication Diploma
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Check it elsewhere for Fall 2026
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2026–27The official entry
- Requirements for Fall 2026Waterloo’s requisite checker
- Schedule of Classes, Fall 2026Instructors, rooms, live seats
- Quest Class SearchWhere you enrol
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
Calendar versions
Undergraduate Calendar
- 2024–25
- 2025–26
- 2026–27 (shown here)
- 2019–20 and earlier on ucalendar