Spring 2027

Dancing Gender: Embodiment, Politics and Feminist Theory

Dancing Gender explores gender and feminist theories through the lens of dance, examining embodiment, politics, and global dance genres.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lauren Gerlowski3.7/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

Workload included weekly assignments and journal entries summarizing two hours of lectures into under 250 words, which some found tedious but manageable with time.

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Prerequisites

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DANCE 168

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Raw average: 5.00/5 from 1 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.83 GPA, 88.3% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=97 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.66 GPA, 85.2% A/AB (n=88 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LAUREN GERLOWSKI is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

NATALIE ZERVOU is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 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
DIS 301Online Only0 / 250
DIS 302Online Only0 / 250
DIS 303Online Only0 / 250
DIS 304Online Only0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

Students reported that Natalie Zervou discussed societal topics clearly and without bias, making issues easier to understand.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.70 GPA, 86.8% A/AB (n=91 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=97 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.66 GPA, 85.2% A/AB (n=88 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

Workload included weekly assignments and journal entries summarizing two hours of lectures into under 250 words, which some found tedious but manageable with time.

Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

Some students found the grading on summaries harsh and the volume of busy work excessive for an introductory humanities class.

Topics

  • Gender and feminist theories focusing on the body.
  • Global dance genres including Ballroom, Bollywood, Folk Dance, and Ballet.
  • Cultural specificity of gender norms and challenging heteronormativity.

Skills

  • Analyze the cultural specificity of gender norms and how dance challenges heteronormativity.

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 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 · 0.08 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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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 168 · Spring 2027

Dancing Gender: Embodiment, Politics and Feminist Theory

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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