Spring 2027

Teaching Social Studies

Teaching Social Studies examines recent trends and develops curricula and instructional strategies to prepare children for active citizenship in a democratic, multicultural, technological society.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Janel Anderson

The course was rated as difficult, with projects that students felt were poorly aligned with the provided materials.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the five core areas of social studies

  • Explain contemporary issues facing elementary social studies today

  • Identify conceptual frameworks for how best to teach social studies

  • Identify, evaluate, and create elementary social studies resources

  • Plan a high-quality social studies inquiry unit

  • Commit to integrating social studies instruction into your future practice

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Elementary Education BSE or Elementary Education and Special Education BSE

  • Declared in Elementary Education BSE or Elementary Education and Special Education BSE
CURRIC 371

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  • Declared in Elementary Education BSE or Elementary Education and Special Education BSE

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JANEL ANDERSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022. 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 · Janel Anderson

Past students described the instructor as passive-aggressive and noted that assigned projects ignored provided handouts.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.95 GPA, 97.5% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.97 GPA, 99.2% A/AB (n=132 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.79 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=142 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Janel Anderson

The course was rated as difficult, with projects that students felt were poorly aligned with the provided materials.

Past student reviews · Janel Anderson

Students found the instructor's approach frustrating, specifically citing penalties for absences related to COVID despite claims of being understanding.

Topics

  • Recent trends in the field of social studies.
  • The five core areas of social studies.
  • Conceptual frameworks for teaching social studies.

Skills

  • Developing social studies curricula and instructional strategies to prepare children for active citizenship.
  • Planning a high-quality social studies inquiry unit.
  • Identifying, evaluating, and creating elementary social studies resources.

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 4 recent 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.

7 earlier forecasts · 0.05 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Fall 2025 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1316 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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