Spring 2027

Community and Social Change

Examines contemporary issues focusing on how individuals and communities achieve positive social change. Themes include education reform, racial justice, health equity, food systems, and sustainability.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Jennifer Gaddis

The workload included extensive pre-work and a quiz before each class. Major assessments involved an oral history project and a final group project, where students were graded as a group.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze community issues and contemporary social movements from human ecological & multicultural perspectives

  • Identify stakeholders and describe the possibilities, values, and limitations of strategies for achieving social change objectives

  • Link historical and contemporary scholarly authors as it relates to Community-Based and Action-Oriented research

  • Recognize how power, privilege, and social identity influence the ways diverse individuals and groups experience (and influence) social change

  • Reflect on how social identities, community contexts, and relative privilege impact the ways they experience and/or agitate for social change

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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CSCS 125

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMY HILGENDORF is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

BRIAN MCINNES is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JENNIFER GADDIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. 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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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gaddis

Students described the class as easy and engaging, with topics relevant to current society. It served as a good first step into the major for some learners.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=55 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.56 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=60 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.75 GPA, 89.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gaddis

The workload included extensive pre-work and a quiz before each class. Major assessments involved an oral history project and a final group project, where students were graded as a group.

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gaddis

Lectures consisted mostly of small group discussions in pods. While one student enjoyed the discussion format, another noted that the discussion prompts were identical to the homework assignments.

Topics

  • Education reform, racial justice, health equity, alternative economies, food systems, and sustainability
  • Power, privilege, and social identity in social change

Skills

  • Communication skills for working in diverse community contexts
  • Identifying stakeholders and evaluating social change strategies
  • Reflecting on social identity and privilege in social change

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.

5 earlier forecasts · 0.15 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

GPA

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letter grades

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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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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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