Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.41 GPA, 69.3% A/AB (n=88 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.66 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.68 GPA, 83.6% A/AB (n=61 letter grades).
Raw average: 5.00/5 from 2 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.
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.41 GPA, 69.3% A/AB (n=88 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.66 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.68 GPA, 83.6% A/AB (n=61 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
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Topics
Structure, use, and development of the English language
Varieties of the English language
Grades
Historical instructor
Fall 2026 · Projected
Before grades are released
3.283.28–3.903.90average GPA
Approximate 80% prediction interval
0.04.0
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 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.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.18 GPA average error.
Grades over time
Through Fall 2026
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Where this course fits relative to
Latest available grades · Fall 2025 · all course levels
3.683.68GPA
Higher than 4949% of other courses
in this group.
Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range
6161letter grades
More recorded grades than 4242% of other courses in this group.
Typical course in this group: 70.070.0 letter grades.
About this comparison
1320 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
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.