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Introduction to Digital Communication
Introduction to digital communication, its impact on daily life, and the critical analysis of online power structures.
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Historical reviews of Ailea Merriam-Pigg: Weekly quizzes and labs are reported as super easy, allowing students to pass without paying attention in lectures. The workload is minimal, with students able to achieve high grades by attending only lectures and completing the easy assessments.
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Professors
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Megan Rooney describe lectures as too fast and poorly delivered.
AILEA MERRIAM-PIGG is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MEGAN ROONEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2017. 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 | 96 / 100 | 0 |
| LAB 301 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 20 | 0 |
| LAB 302 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 0 |
| LAB 303 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 0 |
| LAB 305 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 0 |
| LAB 306 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of Ailea Merriam-Pigg: Reviewers describe COMARTS 200 as an easy class with low effort requirements, noting that lectures are mandatory but irrelevant to assignments. The course is characterized as fun due to social media projects, though lectures are considered boring and annoying.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 87.9% A/AB (n=116 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.82 GPA, 91.8% A/AB (n=97 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=196 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Ailea Merriam-Pigg: Weekly quizzes and labs are reported as super easy, allowing students to pass without paying attention in lectures. The workload is minimal, with students able to achieve high grades by attending only lectures and completing the easy assessments.
Historical reviews of Ailea Merriam-Pigg: Students find the lab component, which includes social media projects, to be the most fun part of the class. Conversely, lectures are viewed as extremely boring and unrelated to the actual course assignments.
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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 · 0.20 GPA average error.
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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 Digital Communication
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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