Spring 2027

Chemistry in Our World

Chemistry in Our World covers selected inorganic and organic chemistry topics, emphasizing relevance to biological, environmental, and social issues.

offering recorded5 credits

Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Clark Landis

Clark Landis’s section required a weekly problem set and Friday quizzes. Students noted that quizzes did not align with homework, making perfect scores difficult despite easy exams.

What you’ll be able to do

Apply appropriate chemical concepts to describe contemporary scientific issues and evaluate proposed solutions to these issues.
Identify the chemical concepts and principles needed to solve a chemistry problem and evaluate the validity of an answer to a given problem.
Apply models of atoms, molecules, and their interactions to explain the physical and chemical macroscopic properties of gasses, liquids, and solids.
Visualize and apply chemical and mathematical models to link atomic and molecular structure to macroscopic properties (e.g., to predict the outcome of selected chemical reactions).
Conduct, modify, and analyze experiments in the laboratory pertaining to product-generation, thermochemistry, and spectroscopy while developing fundamental safety, measurement, and sample isolation techniques.
Articulate the rationale behind experimental results in verbal communications and written assessments.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CLARK LANDIS is recorded teaching in Spring 2010. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JAMES HUTCHISON is recorded teaching in Spring 2011. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MELISA M. CHERNEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2008. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PAUL HOOKER is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TERESA CHRISTINE LARSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014. 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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Section	Mode	Enrolled / capacity
LEC 001	Classroom Instruction	0 / 265
DIS 543	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 544	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 548	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 549	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 550	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 843	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 844	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 848	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 849	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 850	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 545	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 845	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 546	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 846	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 547	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 847	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 541	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 542	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 841	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 842	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 552	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 852	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 551	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 851	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 553	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
DIS 554	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 853	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19
LAB 854	Classroom Instruction	0 / 19

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

Past student reviews · Paul Hooker

Past students found Dr. Hooker's lectures engaging and approachable, making the material feel manageable. One student felt the course was so easy it might as well have been an introductory level.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.00 GPA, 40.4% A/AB (n=188 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.00 GPA, 42.8% A/AB (n=215 letter grades); Spring 2026: 2.93 GPA, 40.8% A/AB (n=223 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Clark Landis

Clark Landis’s section required a weekly problem set and Friday quizzes. Students noted that quizzes did not align with homework, making perfect scores difficult despite easy exams.

Past student reviews · James Matthew Hutchison

Opinions on James Hutchison varied; one student found his pacing rushed and distracting, while another enjoyed his humor and demonstrations. A strong TA significantly improved the experience for some.

Topics

Inorganic and organic chemistry topics.
Relevance of chemistry to biological, environmental, and social issues.
Laboratory experiments in product-generation, thermochemistry, and spectroscopy.

Skills

Applying chemical concepts to describe and evaluate contemporary scientific issues.
Using atomic and molecular models to explain macroscopic properties of matter.
Conducting laboratory experiments in product-generation, thermochemistry, and spectroscopy.
Communicating experimental rationales verbally and in written assessments.

Grades

Spring 2027 · Projected

Before grades are released

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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.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.14 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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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

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

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records

CHEM 108 · Spring 2027

Chemistry in Our World

Recorded 2026-10-14

Raw records

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Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

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Model outputs & technical records

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

LLM outputs across runs

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Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

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Model & dataset provenance

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Chemistry in Our World

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