Spring 2027

Special Topics in Production

Specialized advanced subject matter in film, video or digital media production.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.63 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=34 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate mastery of the aesthetic and technical tools image and/or audio storytelling

  • Analyze story structure and illustrate how creative decisions support story interpretation

  • Analyze the meaning, form, and process of cinematic work with the goal of providing honest, critical, and instructive feedback

  • Reproduce and apply industry standards

  • Articulate the relationship between the field of media production and the field of media studies

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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COM ARTS 355 or declared in Communication Arts MA or PhD

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COMARTS 609

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.63 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 97.1% A/AB (n=34 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Film, video, and digital media production
  • Image and/or audio storytelling
  • Story structure and creative decisions
  • Meaning, form, and process of cinematic work
  • Industry standards
  • Relationship between media production and media studies

Skills

  • Mastery of aesthetic and technical tools for image and/or audio storytelling
  • Analyzing story structure and illustrating how creative decisions support story interpretation
  • Analyzing the meaning, form, and process of cinematic work to provide honest, critical, and instructive feedback
  • Reproducing and applying industry standards
  • Articulating the relationship between media production and media studies

Grades

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Where this course fits relative to

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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

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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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