Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.43 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Cooperatives and Alternative Forms of Enterprise Ownership
Explores cooperatives, credit unions, and other user-owned alternative enterprises, focusing on their emergence, service roles, and applications to social, economic, and environmental challenges.
offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Courtney Berner
Summary
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.43 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Communicate the characteristics of cooperatives, credit unions, and other alternative forms of enterprise and their role in our economy and society.
Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of enterprise ownership structures and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
Discern when a cooperative or alternative form of enterprise ownership is the appropriate response to a social, economic, or environmental challenge.
Appreciate how ownership structures affect enterprise behavior, strategy, and decision-making.
Apply knowledge of cooperatives and alternative ownership models to a real world community economic development challenge.
Use sustainability principles for developing personal goals and professional values.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
528528 letter grades
A27.5%27.5%
AB26.1%26.1%
B27.1%27.1%
BC7.2%7.2%
C7.4%7.4%
D3.0%3.0%
F1.7%1.7%
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Prerequisites
Course mapSophomore standing and satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A
- Sophomore standing
- satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A
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- All of
- Sophomore standing
- satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
COURTNEY BERNER is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. 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 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 30 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.43 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
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Topics
- Emergence, target populations, and differences of alternative enterprise models
- Addressing social, economic, and environmental challenges
Skills
- Communicate characteristics of cooperatives and alternative enterprises
- Apply cooperative and alternative ownership models to community challenges
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A33.3%33.3%
AB44.4%44.4%
B11.1%11.1%
BC11.1%11.1%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
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Cooperatives and Alternative Forms of Enterprise Ownership
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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