Spring 2027

Gateway to Asia: Special Topics

Gateway to Asia: Special Topics offers a comparative, interdisciplinary introduction to multiple Asian cultures, with possible topics including travelogues, languages, and food cultures.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Anthony Cerulli3.7/5

Summary

1 / 5

Past student reviews · Adam Kern

The course required extensive reading of manga, with students noting that even reading one volume fully was sufficient to ace the open-internet quizzes.

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Prerequisites

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ASIAN 100

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Professors

Spring 2027
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Raw average: 5.00/5 from 1 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 — Fall 2018: 3.15 GPA, 55.2% A/AB (n=58 letter grades); Fall 2019: 3.36 GPA, 64.3% A/AB (n=42 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADAM KERN is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ANTHONY CERULLI is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHARO D'ETCHEVERRY is recorded teaching in Fall 2021. 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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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Charo D'Etcheverry

Students appreciated the transparency of contract grading, which clearly outlined requirements for an A from the first day of the course.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.34 GPA, 68.2% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.55 GPA, 86.6% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.46 GPA, 72.3% A/AB (n=83 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Adam Kern

The course required extensive reading of manga, with students noting that even reading one volume fully was sufficient to ace the open-internet quizzes.

Past student reviews · Adam Kern

A past instructor employed a guest lecturer format where he acted as a facilitator rather than the primary lecturer, engaging students by playing devil's advocate during class discussions.

Topics

  • Multiple cultures of Asia
  • Travelogues
  • Languages of Asia
  • Food cultures of Asia

Skills

  • Comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of multiple Asian cultures
  • Examination of travelogues, languages, and food cultures in Asia

Grades

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

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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

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ASIAN 100 · Spring 2027

Gateway to Asia: Special Topics

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN 100 · Spring 2027

Asian Punk: Music, Resistance

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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