Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Special Topics: Environmental Perspectives in the Physical Sciences
Special topics in environmental perspectives within physical environmental sciences, including energy resources, measurement, modeling, remote sensing, GIS, and climate change.
offering recorded1–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Tracey Holloway3.9/5
Summary
1 / 5
Past student reviews · Annemarie Schneider
Labs required significant work outside of class, and exams were described as difficult, though grading was curved generously and extra credit was available.
Grade history
↗ average GPA
488488 letter grades
A60.5%60.5%
AB13.7%13.7%
B15.2%15.2%
BC2.5%2.5%
C5.7%5.7%
D1.6%1.6%
F0.8%0.8%
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Prerequisites
Course mapSophomore standing
- Sophomore standing
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Prerequisite text tree
- Sophomore standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ANNEMARIE SCHNEIDER is recorded teaching in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
TRACEY HOLLOWAY is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, 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 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 10 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Meeting source records
Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Annemarie Schneider
This course covers a wide range of remote sensing applications in a short amount of time, requiring students to manage a broad scope of material efficiently.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Annemarie Schneider
Labs required significant work outside of class, and exams were described as difficult, though grading was curved generously and extra credit was available.
Past student reviews · Annemarie Schneider
While the organization of lectures was slightly confusing, the professor presented the material clearly, helping students navigate the content despite structural challenges.
Topics
- Energy resources, environmental measurement and analysis, modeling, remote sensing and GIS, environmental engineering and transportation, air and water resources, and global climate change.
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A100.0%100.0%
AB0.0%0.0%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.
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.
Selected offering source records
Special Topics: Environmental Perspectives in the Physical Sciences
Recorded 2026-10-14Advanced Air Quality Analysis
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.
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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
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