Spring 2027

History of Race and Inequality in Urban America

Examines how metropolitan change, economic transformation, and race construction shaped mass incarceration, inequality, and minority experiences in urban America.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Maxwell Greenberg

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Walter Stern

One student found the workload light, stating that readings were supplemental rather than primary, and appreciated the creative freedom available for the final project.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate their awareness of History’s Impact on the Present

  • Recognize and Question Assumptions

  • Demonstrate their consciousness of Self and Others

  • Demonstrate their capacity for Effective Participation in a Multicultural Society

  • Identify and discuss the significance of key actors, events, themes, and ideas relating to the history of race and inequality in the metropolitan United States

  • Identify and evaluate historical arguments in secondary scholarly works

  • Interpret, analyze, and contextualize primary historical sources

  • Use library resources in order to locate relevant primary and secondary source materials

  • Synthesize information from primary and secondary sources in order to develop and support their own evidence-based historical interpretations

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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EDPOL/HISTORY 143

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Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

WALTER STERN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. 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 / 250
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Walter Stern

Students described this course as very easy, noting that weekly readings were manageable and the instructor was accommodating to student needs.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=59 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.68 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=77 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Walter Stern

One student found the workload light, stating that readings were supplemental rather than primary, and appreciated the creative freedom available for the final project.

Past student reviews · Walter Stern

A past student praised Walter Stern's passion for the subject, which made lectures and discussions engaging and exciting to attend daily.

Topics

  • Metropolitan change, economic transformation, and race construction
  • Mass incarceration, educational, housing, and income inequality
  • Experiences of marginalized racial/ethnic minorities
  • Responses to inequality and modes of resistance

Skills

  • Evaluate historical arguments and interpret primary sources
  • Locate primary and secondary source materials using library resources
  • Develop evidence-based historical interpretations by synthesizing sources

Grades

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

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Where this course fits relative to

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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/HISTORY 143 · Spring 2027

History of Race and Inequality in Urban America

Recorded 2026-10-14
EDPOL/HISTORY 143 · Spring 2027

History of Race and Inequality in Urban America

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
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