Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.95 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=128 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=165 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Forum on the Environment
A forum course examining historical and contemporary human impacts on the biosphere and prospects for sustainable management.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Xia Zhu Barker
Summary
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Historical reviews of Thea Whitman: Workload is minimal, consisting of in-class work, short homework, and one group project, with guest speakers and group work structure.
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Thea Whitman describe the course as easy with minimal homework, featuring guest speakers and group work. Another reviewer found the content interesting and inspiring under her instruction.
THEA WHITMAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
XIA ZHU BARKER is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Fall 2025. 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
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| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 118 / 200 | 10 |
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 53 / 200 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews under Thea Whitman describe the course as easy with minimal homework, though one reviewer found the content inspiring while another viewed it as a low-effort two-credit option.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=175 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=165 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=149 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Thea Whitman: Workload is minimal, consisting of in-class work, short homework, and one group project, with guest speakers and group work structure.
The course content was reported as interesting and inspiring under historical instructor Thea Whitman.
Topics
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Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
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About this comparison
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.
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.
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UW–Madison
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Forum on the Environment
Recorded 2026-09-07Forum on the Environment
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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