Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.66 GPA, 78.7% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.44 GPA, 71.3% A/AB (n=101 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.43 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=112 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
First Semester Japanese
First Semester Japanese teaches basic speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills for everyday communication.
Summary
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Historical reviews of Emre Murat Bozer: The class requires daily pre- and post-class homework, and falling behind risks failure.
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Prerequisites
Course mapNot open to students who have completedASIALANG 114(or E ASIAN 124 prior to Summer 2019)
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- Not eligible with
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- ASIALANG 114
- E ASIAN 124 prior to Summer 2019
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Professors
Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.52 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Emre Murat Bozer highlight his engaging energy and clear explanations, though one student noted he speaks too fast in Japanese. He is described as caring and responsive to questions, but grading delays were reported.
ANJU KINOSHITA is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
EMRE MURAT BOZER is recorded teaching in Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
TAKAKO NAKAKUBO is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 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
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 20 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 0 |
| LEC 003 | Classroom Instruction | 18 / 20 | 0 |
| LEC 004 | Classroom Instruction | 19 / 20 | 0 |
| LEC 005 | Classroom Instruction | 17 / 20 | 0 |
| LEC 006 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 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 for Emre Murat Bozer describe an engaging and caring instructor with high energy, though the course demands daily study and homework to succeed.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.66 GPA, 78.7% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.44 GPA, 71.3% A/AB (n=101 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.43 GPA, 71.4% A/AB (n=112 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Emre Murat Bozer: The class requires daily pre- and post-class homework, and falling behind risks failure.
Historical reviews of Emre Murat Bozer: Students found Bozer's lectures great and engaging, though one noted he sometimes speaks too fast in Japanese.
Topics
Skills
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.
4 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.
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Through Fall 2026
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About this comparison
1320 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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Selected offering source records
First Semester Japanese
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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