Fall 2026

Clinical Communication Skills

COUNPSY 655 teaches clinical communication and listening skills through didactic and experiential training in various clinical settings.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Ava TijerinaHannah GlennNick Parkos +1 more

Summary

1 / 7

Historical reviews of Corissa Lotta: The course required a lot of work, though the content itself was simple enough, with loads of extra credit opportunities and an online lab available.

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

Not open to students with credit forCOUN PSY 650

COUNPSY 655

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree

Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.77 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=68 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.81 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=118 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Corissa Lotta describe a lecture-heavy course with simple content but high workload. Reviewers note a rigid attendance policy that allowed no exceptions, despite inconsistent enforcement. The course offered significant extra credit and online lab opportunities to offset these challenges.

CORISSA LOTTA is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HANNAH GLENN is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, 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

Fall 2026

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction113 / 1207
LAB 301Classroom Instruction20 / 02
LAB 304Classroom Instruction19 / 01
LAB 305Classroom Instruction15 / 01
LAB 306Classroom Instruction19 / 00
LAB 302Classroom Instruction20 / 02
LAB 303Classroom Instruction20 / 01

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records
Download part 1

Student experience

the class

Historical reviews of Corissa Lotta: Reviewers describe the course as having simple content but requiring significant work, with a frustratingly rigid attendance policy that lacks exceptions despite inconsistent enforcement.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=111 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.81 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=118 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Corissa Lotta: The course required a lot of work, though the content itself was simple enough, with loads of extra credit opportunities and an online lab available.

Historical reviews of Corissa Lotta: Students found the rigid attendance policy frustrating, especially the lack of exceptions for medical reasons, while noting the lectures were very heavy and content was merely okay.

Topics

  • Communication theory and research in clinical settings
  • Personal and cultural characteristics in communication

Skills

  • Clinical communication skills
  • Clinical communication and listening skills

Grades

Historical instructor

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 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.

6 earlier forecasts · 0.04 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Fall 2026

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

Higher than % of other courses in this group.

Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range

letter grades

More recorded grades than % of other courses in this group.

Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

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

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records
COUNPSY 655 · Fall 2026

Clinical Communication Skills

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
[
  {
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "semester": "1272",
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1272:270:024909",
    "course_id": "COUNPSY 655",
    "course_uid": "course_e976a577f87b304dd38139d2",
    "term_id": "1272",
    "source_course_id": "024909",
    "source_subject_id": "270",
    "title": "Clinical Communication Skills",
    "credits_min": 3,
    "credits_max": 3,
    "typically_offered": "Spring"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews
Download part 1
Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

Download the original dataset
Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance
{
  "model": "nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
  "model_revision": "1355db6a052410cfd62085d94b58866fd0f2c3c5",
  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "d65243d040540a9fcf373eb02f8dd8f75e3eec1fd3dc30e6a5038d3ce198cea1",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
}