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Fall 2026
Consuming Happiness
Explores happiness and well-being through the lens of consumption, money, and the experience economy.
Summary
1 / 6
Historical reviews of Christine Whelan, Dayana Kupisk: The workload involves extensive assigned readings and weekly quizzes, though exams are reported as relatively easy if students attend lectures and study.
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Prerequisites
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Professors
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Dayana Kupisk describe her lectures as interesting and engaging, noting that the course is term and theory heavy. Reviewers suggest understanding the theoretical content is key to success, while un-covered readings do not require memorization.
CHRISTINE WHELAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
DAYANA KUPISK is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018. 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 | 47 / 48 | 0 |
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 1 / 48 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Historical reviews describe the course as highly interesting, relevant, and engaging, with students expressing strong enthusiasm for the content and instruction.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.67 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=117 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.70 GPA, 83.6% A/AB (n=116 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.74 GPA, 85.3% A/AB (n=109 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Christine Whelan, Dayana Kupisk: The workload involves extensive assigned readings and weekly quizzes, though exams are reported as relatively easy if students attend lectures and study.
Historical reviews of Christine Whelan, Dayana Kupisk: Attendance is required for discussion and lecture, and skipping them negatively impacts grades due to weekly quizzes and reliance on lecture content for exam preparation.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
Before grades are released– average GPA
Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 3 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.
5 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Fall 2026
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Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1241 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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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Consuming Happiness
Recorded 2026-09-07Consuming Happiness
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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