Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.72 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=32 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
The African Storyteller
Explores African oral and written traditions, focusing on story composition, performer-audience dynamics, and cultural transmission.
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Historical reviews of Harold Scheub, Matthew Brown: Scheub required essay prep and strict attendance. Brown’s format used weekly online modules. Students reported varying experiences, from boring readings and busy work to lenient grading and clear instructions.
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Prerequisites
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Fall 2026No course-specific feedback yet.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.22 GPA, 58.6% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.72 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=32 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.70 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Harold Scheub describe him as passionate and knowledgeable, though some found his lectures interesting while others found the readings boring. Students reported strict attendance policies and varying grading experiences, with some noting hard tests and others finding the material engaging.
DIAMOND UREY is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
HAROLD SCHEUB is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MATTHEW BROWN is recorded teaching in Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MUDDU KIYINGI is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
OLUWADAMILOLA OGUNMUKO is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. 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
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| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Online Only | 21 / 30 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Online Only | 25 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 003 | Online Only | 34 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 004 | Online Only | 32 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 005 | Online Only | 29 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 001 | Online Only | 9 / 20 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Online Only | 20 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 003 | Online Only | 11 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 004 | Online Only | 13 / 40 | 0 |
| LEC 005 | Online Only | 16 / 40 | 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
Reviews for historical instructors Harold Scheub and Matthew Brown are polarized. Some find the lectures engaging and the workload manageable, while others describe the content as boring, the grading as harsh or inconsistent, and the experience as a waste of time.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 86.1% A/AB (n=238 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.61 GPA, 80.7% A/AB (n=233 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.68 GPA, 85.6% A/AB (n=236 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Harold Scheub, Matthew Brown: Scheub required essay prep and strict attendance. Brown’s format used weekly online modules. Students reported varying experiences, from boring readings and busy work to lenient grading and clear instructions.
Historical reviews of Harold Scheub, Matthew Brown: Students valued Scheub’s engaging lectures and Brown’s helpful office hours. Conversely, some criticized Scheub’s strict attendance and grumpiness, while others found Brown’s lectures pointless and the content unengaging despite clear instructions.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
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Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.12 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Fall 2026
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Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1283 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
Catalog & offerings
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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
The African Storyteller
Recorded 2026-09-07The African Storyteller
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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