Spring 2027

Topic in Literature and the Environment

A topic course exploring how literary texts represent, imagine, and re-imagine the environment, applying analytical methods to assess their relevance.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Heather Swan

The weekly reading load consisted of a handful of poems, and one student stated it was very easy to get an A in the class.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and critique some of the ways that literary texts represent, imagine and re-imaging the environment.

  • Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance.

  • Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis.

  • Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

Course map

Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
ENGL/ENVIRST 533

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Prerequisite text tree
  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

HEATHER SWAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 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 / 00
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Heather Swan

Students found the course engaging, featuring activities like greenhouse visits and museum tours alongside light reading loads.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.89 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=55 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Heather Swan

The weekly reading load consisted of a handful of poems, and one student stated it was very easy to get an A in the class.

Past student reviews · Heather Swan

One student described the class as wonderful, noting that the instructor created a great learning environment that made them enjoy the course immensely.

Topics

  • Literary representations of the environment
  • Analysis of literary and cultural texts
  • Relationships among society, literature, and language

Skills

  • Critique how literary texts represent and re-imagine the environment
  • Apply analytical methods to literary and cultural texts
  • Use writing to convey critical analysis
  • Analyze relationships between society, literature, and language

Grades

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

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Grades over time

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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
ENGL/ENVIRST 533 · Spring 2027

Topic in Literature and the Environment

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENGL/ENVIRST 533 · Spring 2027

African Ecologies in Lit &Film

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENGL/ENVIRST 533 · Spring 2027

Topic in Literature and the Environment

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENGL/ENVIRST 533 · Spring 2027

African Ecologies in Lit &Film

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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