Spring 2027

Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity

Introductory course in cultural anthropology focusing on comparative cross-cultural analysis of social organization, economics, politics, and culture, with emphasis on U.S. ethnic and racial minorities.

offering recorded3 credits

Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Anne Marie Creighton

Summary

1 / 5

Past student reviews · Claire Wendland

The course involved three big projects and open-note tests administered over a couple-day period, with students receiving two attempts on exams.

Grade history

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Professors

Spring 2027

Anne Marie Creighton

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMY STAMBACH is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CLAIRE WENDLAND is recorded teaching in Fall 2008, Fall 2013, Fall 2020, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2010, Spring 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

FALINA ENRIQUEZ is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

FRANK SALOMON is recorded teaching in Fall 2009. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HAYDER AL-MOHAMMAD is recorded teaching in Spring 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JEROME CAMAL is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KIRIN NARAYAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2011. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LARRY NESPER is recorded teaching in Spring 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LEONIE SCHULTE is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

YONGMING ZHOU is recorded teaching in Fall 2010, Spring 2013. 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 2027

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Section	Mode	Enrolled / capacity
LEC 001	Classroom Instruction	0 / 473
DIS 302	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 303	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 304	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 305	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 307	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 312	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 315	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 316	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 318	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 322	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 327	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 306	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 313	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 324	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 310	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 311	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 323	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
LEC 002	Classroom Instruction	0 / 473
DIS 309	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 321	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 314	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 317	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 325	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 330	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 301	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 308	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 319	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 320	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 326	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 328	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 329	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 331	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 332	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 333	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 334	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 335	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 336	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 337	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 338	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 339	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 340	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 341	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 342	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22
DIS 343	Classroom Instruction	0 / 22

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

Past student reviews · Claire Wendland, Leonie Schulte

Students described the class as easy with optional lectures, noting that test content often came directly from the textbook.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 81.0% A/AB (n=632 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 95.1% A/AB (n=919 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=879 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Claire Wendland

The course involved three big projects and open-note tests administered over a couple-day period, with students receiving two attempts on exams.

Past student reviews · Amy Stambach

Some students found the class boring and noted that while assignments were easy, they involved a lot of busywork for discussions.

Topics

Social organization, economics, politics, language, religion, ecology, gender, and cultural change
U.S. ethnic and racial minorities

Skills

Comparative cross-cultural analysis of social structures and cultural systems
Analysis of U.S. ethnic and racial minority experiences

Grades

Spring 2027 · Projected

Before grades are released

– average GPA

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 · 0.15 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 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

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records

ANTHRO 104 · Spring 2027

Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity

Recorded 2026-10-14

Raw records

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Grade history

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Model outputs & technical records

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

LLM outputs across runs

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Model & dataset provenance

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Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity

Summary

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Prerequisites

Professors

Anne Marie Creighton

Calendar & sections

Student experience

the class

difficulty & workload

Topics

Skills

Grades

Spring 2027 · Projected

Grades over time

Where this course fits relative to UW–Madison

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