Environmental Studies: Environmental Humanities

An introduction to environmental humanities exploring key texts, concepts like sustainability, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment.

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Historical reviews of Anna Gade: One reviewer reports five 1-2 page papers, one 4-6 page paper, and a midterm based on online readings.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Anna Gade: Anna Gade is passionate but sometimes unclear in explanations, with abstract ideas that confuse students. Grading and feedback are handled by TAs, limiting direct interaction with the professor.

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

Fall 2026

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews of Anna Gade, Heather Swan: Anna Gade is described as passionate but abstract with limited interaction, while Heather Swan is praised for fun lectures and author interactions.

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

Historical reviews of Anna Gade: One reviewer reports five 1-2 page papers, one 4-6 page paper, and a midterm based on online readings.

Historical reviews of Anna Gade, Heather Swan: Gade's abstract ideas confuse students and limit interaction, whereas Swan offers engaging lectures and unique Zoom sessions with authors.

Topics

  • Popular understandings of the environment and global perspectives
  • Key concepts such as sustainability and the Anthropocene
  • Key American environmental texts and authors
  • Environmental experience and expression across diverse regions

Skills

  • Integrating skills from philosophy, ethics, literature, fine arts, history, politics, and anthropology
  • Answering fundamental questions about science, nature, and human relations

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 recent 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 · 0.13 GPA average error.

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1283 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.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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