Spring 2027

Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education

Overview of human-earth relations theories and climate crisis causes/consequences, centering ecological justice and providing tools like Traditional Ecological Knowledge for responding to climate change.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Matthew Wolfgram

Grading was not harsh, and TAs handled all grading tasks. Assignments were described as easy and engaging, contributing to a lower overall difficulty rating from recent students.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop an understanding of various conceptualizations of human-earth relations, and the consequences of these understandings on human actions and educational responses

  • Utilize existing scientific evidence to recognize the shape and scope of anthropogenic climate change and its extensive impacts on human and planetary health.

  • Examine educational and knowledge-generation approaches that appear to hold promise for a more sustaining global future.

  • Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of addressing climate change and justice through education.

  • Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenges of educating for sustainable development.

  • Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of climate change and environmental justice and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
EDPOL 320

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MATTHEW WOLFGRAM is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

NANCY KENDALL is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024. 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 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 500
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 500
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Matthew Wolfgram

Recent students found the class engaging with easy assignments and flexible attendance. One reviewer noted it started disorganized but covered interesting topics, while another described the material as truly cared for by the instructor.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.74 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=148 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.71 GPA, 86.6% A/AB (n=142 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=84 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Matthew Wolfgram

Grading was not harsh, and TAs handled all grading tasks. Assignments were described as easy and engaging, contributing to a lower overall difficulty rating from recent students.

Past student reviews · Nancy Kendall

A past student found the course the most disorganized they had taken, citing a lack of structure and consistency. They reported that it took until the midpoint to reach ed policy content and that feedback was vague.

Topics

  • Theories and models of human-earth relations.
  • Causes and consequences of climate and environmental crises.
  • Teejop and Traditional Ecological Knowledge frameworks.
  • Sustainability concepts and frameworks for education.

Skills

  • Critical examination of human-earth relations and climate crisis experiences through an ecological justice lens.
  • Application of sustainability principles, Teejop, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge frameworks.
  • Utilizing scientific evidence to recognize the scope and impacts of anthropogenic climate change.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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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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Selected offering source records
EDPOL 320 · Spring 2027

Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education

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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