Spring 2027

Television Industries

A critical overview of U.S. television cultural industries, covering broadcast to streaming, with focus on economic/regulatory structures, programming, labor, and digital adaptation.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Paxton Haven

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.12 GPA, 49.4% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.63 GPA, 84.7% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 74.7% A/AB (n=87 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the economic, technological, and regulatory pressures reshaping American television

  • Evaluate the relationship between industry and programming aesthetics, constraints, and conventions

  • Critically examine the hierarchies of power that shape identity, community, and inclusion in television production cultures

  • Develop strong arguments about industry through sustained research and analysis of trade journals and other primary evidence

  • Use feedback to improve critical insights about industry through the process of revision

  • Apply industry principles of long-term planning, development, and scheduling to course work

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing or COM ARTS 250

COMARTS 351 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.63 GPA, 84.7% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 74.7% A/AB (n=87 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

PAXTON HAVEN is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. 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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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1000
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.12 GPA, 49.4% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.63 GPA, 84.7% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.52 GPA, 74.7% A/AB (n=87 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Economic and regulatory structures, programming practices, labor, globalization, audiences, and digital adaptation
  • Evolution from broadcast networks and cable to downloading and streaming

Skills

  • Describing economic, technological, and regulatory pressures in American television
  • Evaluating relationships between industry and programming aesthetics
  • Examining power hierarchies in television production cultures
  • Developing arguments through research and analysis of primary evidence
  • Using feedback to refine critical insights through revision
  • Applying industry principles of planning, development, and scheduling

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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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 · 0.18 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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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

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Selected offering source records
COMARTS 351 · Spring 2027

Television Industries

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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