Spring 2027

Environmental Studies: Environmental Humanities

Environmental Humanities explores five understandings of 'environment' with a global perspective, introducing key American texts like Carson and Kimmerer, and concepts such as sustainability and the Anthropocene.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Anna Gade

The course required five weekly writing assignments, an essay, a midterm, a final, and participation to determine the overall grade.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Master core concepts in Environmental Studies

  • Understand human-environmental systems

  • Demonstrate competence in humanistic study and disciplines

  • Achieve excellent writing in Environmental Studies

  • Develop oral/aural and collaborative academic skills

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANNA GADE is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HEATHER SWAN is recorded teaching in 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 / 1760
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 220
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 220

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Heather Swan

Heather Swan made lectures super fun and invited authors for zoom sessions, creating an engaging and kind learning environment.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.96 GPA, 98.4% A/AB (n=192 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=168 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=143 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Anna Gade

The course required five weekly writing assignments, an essay, a midterm, a final, and participation to determine the overall grade.

Past student reviews · Anna Gade

Anna Gade was passionate but sometimes struggled with explaining material, requiring students to rely on online readings described during lecture.

Topics

  • Key American texts including Carson, Kimmerer, and Leopold
  • Sustainability and the Anthropocene
  • Interdisciplinary perspectives from philosophy, ethics, literature, art, history, politics, and anthropology
  • Global cases ranging from Wisconsin to Asia across biotic and abiotic environments

Skills

  • Mastery of core Environmental Studies concepts
  • Competence in humanistic study and disciplines
  • Excellent writing in Environmental Studies
  • Oral/aural and collaborative academic skills

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 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 · 0.08 GPA average error.

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
ENVIRST 113 · Spring 2027

Environmental Studies: Environmental Humanities

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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Model & dataset provenance 
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