Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.14 GPA, 65.2% A/AB (n=115 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.51 GPA, 80.8% A/AB (n=104 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.22 GPA, 58.7% A/AB (n=63 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Introduction to Personal Financial Planning
Introduction to personal financial planning covering cash flow, asset/liability management, investment, tax, retirement, and estate planning.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Linda Francetic Lepe
Summary
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Historical reviews of Melody Harvey: Quizzes were open-note and not too difficult, though one reviewer noted they did not learn much from the course content.
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Melody Harvey are sharply divided. One student found her funny and enjoyable, while others criticized her for laziness, lack of engagement, and recycled content. Some reported learning little due to minimal lecture materials and delayed responses.
LINDA FRANCETIC LEPE is recorded teaching in Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MELODY HARVEY is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. 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 | 56 / 60 | 0 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 60 / 60 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Reviews for historical instructor Melody Harvey are sharply divided, with one student praising her humor while others criticize her lack of effort and engagement.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.14 GPA, 65.2% A/AB (n=115 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.51 GPA, 80.8% A/AB (n=104 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.54 GPA, 76.5% A/AB (n=136 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Melody Harvey: Quizzes were open-note and not too difficult, though one reviewer noted they did not learn much from the course content.
Historical reviews of Melody Harvey: Students reported frustration with outdated or missing lecture videos, recycled materials, and slow instructor responses during online delivery.
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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.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.22 GPA average error.
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Through Fall 2026
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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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Selected offering source records
Introduction to Personal Financial Planning
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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