Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Relief Printmaking
Relief printmaking course covering woodcut, linoleum cut, and color printing through studio practice, lectures, and critiques.
offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 John Hitchcock3.8/5
Summary
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Past student reviews · Andrew Rubin
Earning a high grade required putting in the time to complete projects and demonstrating a level of caring about learning.
What you’ll be able to do
Identify and describe various relief printmaking technique, including additive and reductive relief cut, multiple block, and monotype/monoprint processes.
Demonstrate the ability to apply relief printmaking techniques to create prints that effectively utilize formal design elements such as line, shape, composition, and positive/negative space
Critically analyze the history and contemporary use of relief printmaking, conducting research and presenting on artists or collectives that utilize relief printmaking in their work.
Create a portfolio of prints, including preparatory drawings and final works, and present the work in a group exhibition and digital presentation, articulating the conceptual and aesthetic choices
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
441441 letter grades
A77.6%77.6%
AB16.1%16.1%
B4.5%4.5%
BC0.5%0.5%
C0.9%0.9%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.5%0.5%
All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors
Prerequisites
Course mapProfessors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ANDREW RUBIN is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOHN HITCHCOCK is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 12 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Andrew Rubin
Students described the course as inspirational, with an instructor who demonstrated extensive experience in various etching techniques throughout the semester.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Andrew Rubin
Earning a high grade required putting in the time to complete projects and demonstrating a level of caring about learning.
Past student reviews · Andrew Rubin
One student found it frustrating that they did not receive clear grading requirements and did not know where they stood until the end of the semester.
Topics
- Woodcut, collage print, linoleum cut, wood engraving, and color printing
- Additive and reductive relief cuts, multiple block, and monotype/monoprint processes
- History and contemporary use of relief printmaking
Skills
- Identify and describe relief printmaking techniques including additive/reductive cuts, multiple blocks, and monotypes
- Apply relief printmaking techniques using formal design elements like line, shape, and composition
- Create and present a portfolio of prints with preparatory drawings and final works
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
A100.0%100.0%
AB0.0%0.0%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.
Selected offering source records
Relief Printmaking
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.
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View the dataset on Hugging Face Recorded 2026-10-14
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
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