Spring 2027

Political and Cultural Perspectives in Dance Studies

This course examines dance as a cultural form of expression within the political sphere, using case studies like hip-hop, modern dance, and public protests to explore dance's social and political functions.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Meghan Quinlan

Summary

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Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

The course required significant writing, including four papers, weekly discussion posts, and weekly summaries, which one student described as a ton of work for three credits.

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
DANCE 268

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 76.0% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.76 GPA, 87.8% A/AB (n=90 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=95 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MEGHAN QUINLAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

NATALIE ZERVOU is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. 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 found the online lectures engaging enough to manage, noting that taking detailed notes on the videos was crucial for success.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 76.0% A/AB (n=96 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.76 GPA, 87.8% A/AB (n=90 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=95 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

The course required significant writing, including four papers, weekly discussion posts, and weekly summaries, which one student described as a ton of work for three credits.

Past student reviews · Natalie Zervou

One student noted that quiz questions came directly from lecture videos, making note-taking highly effective, though they also found the weekly summaries annoying but manageable.

Topics

  • Dance as political cultural expression
  • Case studies in popular, modern, and protest dance
  • Social and political functions of dance

Skills

  • Analyze the social and political functions of dance
  • Examine diverse dance case studies including TV shows, modern dance, and hip-hop

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 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 · 0.16 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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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

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
DANCE 268 · Spring 2027

Political and Cultural Perspectives in Dance Studies

Recorded 2026-10-14
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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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