Spring 2027

Environment, Natural Resources, and Society

Sociological examination of human interaction with the natural environment, covering resource depletion, population growth, food production, regulation, and sustainability in national and global contexts.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Kathryn Anderson

Students reported lots of readings, though the overall difficulty was rated as moderate.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe and critique the role of social conditions and social change in shaping equities and disparities in environment, health, and community

  • Place an understanding of local social conditions and change in the global context of rural and urban life, including political, ecological, economic, geographic, historical, and cultural dimensions

  • Frame and conduct social science research

  • Ethically apply research methods, such as qualitative, quantitative, historical, interdisciplinary, participatory, and action approaches, and evaluate findings

  • Demonstrate leadership and collaboration skills for working with people from a diversity of backgrounds in professional and ethical ways that enable beneficial and regenerative relationships

  • Demonstrate advanced verbal and written communication skills that are applicable in a professional setting

  • Articulate the complex and intricate relationships between people and the planet by exploring the many stories that bind these two together in the US

  • Describe how these social ecological relationships produce unequal health outcomes, life chances, and opportunities

  • Identify the values and principles of environmental movements

  • Evaluate how the climate change crisis exacerbates urgent and contemporary social problems

  • Apply analytical skills in spatial, political economic, culture, and critical environmental analysis

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

IAN CARRILLO is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KATHRYN ANDERSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Kathryn Anderson

This course explores the intersection of sociology and the environment, covering a wide variety of topics through engaging class discussions.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.57 GPA, 81.6% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.95 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.65 GPA, 86.1% A/AB (n=36 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Kathryn Anderson

Students reported lots of readings, though the overall difficulty was rated as moderate.

Past student reviews · Ian Carrillo

Past students found the class setup made it easy to get to know classmates and described the content as interesting.

Topics

  • Resource depletion, population growth, food production, environmental regulation, and sustainability
  • Climate change and its impact on social problems
  • Values and principles of environmental movements
  • Social-ecological relationships and health inequalities

Skills

  • Framing and conducting social science research
  • Applying ethical research methods and evaluating findings
  • Professional verbal and written communication
  • Spatial, political economic, cultural, and critical environmental analysis

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 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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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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