A Different World - Season 4 (1990)

Kim moves into high gear for practice med-school exam, While Whitley downshifts her spending.

Dwayne helps Whitley prepare for an academic competition, but one thing leads to another during a study session.

Dwayne, Whitley, and Freddie find themselves in a different dimension--"The Exam Zone".

Dwayne's mother walks in on a squabble between Kinu and the apartment's new maid - Whitley.

Dwayne and Whitley finally sit down and discuss their budding romance. Ron discovers that the homeless population is not what he thinks.

As Whitley and Dewayne get back together they start to study together and it affects them both different ways in their life academically.

Col. Taylor feels he's made a hole in one when asked to join the once segregated country club.

Whitley joins Dwayne in Brooklyn for his family's Christmas. However she runs into trouble with a crooked Santa while shopping for a gift for Dwayne's mother.

Blair Underwood plays a friend of Dwayne's who battles ambivalence on the eve of his reserve unit's departure to Persian Gulf.

Julian has a talk with Whitley that takes a toll on her ego--and may cost her Dwayne.

Lack of money may make Whitley's world come tumbling down after she blows her rent money.

Matthew brings members of the National theater of the Deaf to Walter's outreach center for a performance.

Kim is afraid that Matthew's involvement in his Drama Studies makes them an incompatible couple, but Matthew and the issues going on with Dwayne and Whitley soon prove it will be ok.

A male student of Hillman college who goes by the name of Shazza Zulu says that the Hillman men are "Dogs". Then, one thing leads to another and the women and men of Hillman are against each other while Shazza Zulu gets a profit out of it.

Whitley is forced to bunk with Dwayne and Ron for a while when Jalessa's sister comes to visit. Dwayne gets a job offer from Kinishiwa company where he spends his summers.

Whitley gets overly enthusiastic when bidding on art at an auction she attends for her internship. Freddie invents a new persona for her radio show.

When Walter arranges a telethon to raise extra money for the outreach center, the Hillman gang contributes by showcasing their various talents.

It's the time of year again when pledgers come to pledge, Ron is giving Terrance and the other pledges trouble while Whitley gives Kim and the other pledges trouble.

Whitley is going about her day when she finds a person who is a marvelous artist, but things go wrong when they are at an art gallery and someone disapproves of one piece in particular.

Whitley is thinking about giving up her virginity to Dwayne, but when one of her Public Speaking classmates reveals she has AIDS, Whitley has second thoughts and many students react to the classmate in ignorance.

Ron begs a dean to let him take a course and Walter leaves Hillman.

Whitley decides to follow her boss who's being transferred to the New York office and Dwayne tries to cope with what that will mean for their relationship.