Spring 2027

Assessment of Environmental Impact

Assessment of Environmental Impact covers methods for collecting and analyzing information about environmental impacts on agricultural and natural resources, monitoring the physical environment, and relating impacts to people and society.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Geoffrey Siemering

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 54.2% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 88.6% A/AB (n=35 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe various methods used for environmental assessment, particularly in the context of land use, resource extraction, and environmental pollution

  • Measure and evaluate environmental impacts and the effects of human activities on physical and biological resources, including soil, water, air, and biota

  • Explain the role of environmental impact statement laws and regulations in decision-making processes

  • Organize, analyze, and visualize environmental data spatially

  • Use models to understand complex interactions between natural systems and human activities

  • Analyze how environmental changes affect communities, health, and well-being

  • Evaluate the role of environmental assessment in policy-making, enforcement, and information dissemination

  • Analyze environmental data for trends and patterns

  • Integrate data from multiple databases

  • Critically evaluate environmental impact assessment methodologies

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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ENVIRST/SOILSCI 575

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Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

GEOFFREY SIEMERING is recorded teaching in 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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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 450
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 450

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 54.2% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 88.6% A/AB (n=35 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Environmental impacts on agricultural and natural resources
  • Monitoring the physical environment
  • Relating environmental impacts to people and society
  • Land use, resource extraction, and environmental pollution
  • Soil, water, air, and biota
  • Environmental impact statement laws and regulations
  • Effects of environmental changes on communities, health, and well-being
  • Policy-making, enforcement, and information dissemination

Skills

  • Collecting and analyzing information about environmental impacts
  • Measuring and evaluating environmental impacts on physical and biological resources
  • Explaining the role of environmental impact statement laws and regulations
  • Organizing, analyzing, and visualizing environmental data spatially
  • Using models to understand interactions between natural systems and human activities
  • Integrating data from multiple databases
  • Critically evaluating environmental impact assessment methodologies

Grades

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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

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ENVIRST/SOILSCI 575 · Spring 2027

Assessment of Environmental Impact

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENVIRST/SOILSCI 575 · Spring 2027

Assessment of Environmental Impact

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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