Spring 2027

Making the American Landscape

Making the American Landscape traces the history and evolution of the American cultural landscape from precolonial times to present.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Anna Andrzejewski4.1/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.71 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.82 GPA, 93.2% A/AB (n=117 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 90.8% A/AB (n=131 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe and interpret the American landscape as a richly layered historical document mediated by complex relationships between people and groups

  • Explain how the American cultural landscape has affected present day circumstances regarding ethnicity and race as well as racial and ethnic inequalities

  • Articulate ways in which historical change manifest in buildings, enclosed spaces, and other elements of the American landscape reveal racial, ethnic, class and gender dynamics between and among people and groups over time

  • Enlist forms of historical evidence – maps (current and historic), photographs (aerial and otherwise), historical newspapers, census records, deeds and land records – to interpret landscapes and landscape change

  • Explain the American landscape as a product of competing interests, which will demonstrate self-awareness and empathy toward the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3 UW Guide 4 UW Guide 5

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Prerequisites

Course map

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ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239

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Prerequisite text tree
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Professors

Spring 2027

Anna Andrzejewski

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Raw average: 4.30/5 from 37 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.71 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.82 GPA, 93.2% A/AB (n=117 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 90.8% A/AB (n=131 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANNA ANDRZEJEWSKI is recorded teaching in 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 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2400
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 320Classroom Instruction0 / 00
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2400
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 320Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2400
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 320Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2400
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 320Classroom Instruction0 / 00
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 2400
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 320Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 310Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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: 3.71 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.82 GPA, 93.2% A/AB (n=117 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 90.8% A/AB (n=131 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Class, ethnic, and racial inequality in shaping the American landscape
  • Civic structures, national parks, war memorials, mining towns, plantations, and suburban housing

Skills

  • Describing and interpreting the American landscape as a historical document
  • Using maps, photographs, newspapers, census records, and deeds to interpret landscape change

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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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

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Selected offering source records
ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239 · Spring 2027

Making the American Landscape

Recorded 2026-10-14
ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239 · Spring 2027

Making the American Landscape

Recorded 2026-10-14
ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239 · Spring 2027

Making the American Landscape

Recorded 2026-10-14
ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239 · Spring 2027

Making the American Landscape

Recorded 2026-10-14
ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239 · Spring 2027

Making the American Landscape

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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