Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=108 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.87 GPA, 92.2% A/AB (n=64 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Colloquium in Art
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Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 John Baldacchino
Summary
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Historical reviews suggest the workload is manageable, allowing for an easy A if students attend artist talks and write reflections.
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Prerequisites
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Elaine Scheer: Elaine Scheer is described as caring and connected, providing comments on reflections to foster engagement in large classes. She offers make-up assignments for missed artist talks, which reviewers found diverse and interesting, contributing to an easy A grade.
ELAINE SCHEER is recorded teaching in Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOHN BALDACCHINO is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 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
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 74 / 80 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 35 | 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
Historical reviews describe the course as very interesting with a caring instructor, though current teaching is handled by John Baldacchino.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=108 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.87 GPA, 92.2% A/AB (n=64 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews suggest the workload is manageable, allowing for an easy A if students attend artist talks and write reflections.
Historical reviews praise the diverse artist talks and the instructor's caring nature, noting that make-up assignments are available for missed sessions.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · 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 · 0.09 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Fall 2026
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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
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
Colloquium in Art
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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