Spring 2027

Understanding Dance

Understanding Dance builds appreciation for the field by integrating theoretical, historical, and embodied learning through viewing, reading, reflecting, discussing, and creating.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jin-Wen Yu

Summary

1 / 5

Past student reviews · Karen McShane-Hellenbrand

Attendance was mandatory with two free absence passes. The midterm required a memorized dance routine, and the final was multiple-choice with a provided study guide.

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Prerequisites

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DANCE 100

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.81 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.71 GPA, 87.4% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=104 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JIN-WEN YU is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, 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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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 1000

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Karen McShane-Hellenbrand

Students described this social dance course as one of the easiest classes they took, noting that the instructor prepared students thoroughly for assessments.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.81 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.71 GPA, 87.4% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=104 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Karen McShane-Hellenbrand

Attendance was mandatory with two free absence passes. The midterm required a memorized dance routine, and the final was multiple-choice with a provided study guide.

Past student reviews · Karen McShane-Hellenbrand

One student found the instructor passionate but noted that assignment requirements were sometimes unclear and did not always match the criteria listed on Canvas.

Topics

  • Theoretical, historical, and embodied aspects of dance
  • Relevance of dance to other disciplines

Skills

  • Building understanding and appreciation for the field of Dance
  • Developing into an informed audience and recognizing relevance to other disciplines

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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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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Selected offering source records
DANCE 100 · Spring 2027

Understanding Dance

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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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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