Spring 2027

Contemporary Topics

Contemporary Topics explores subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Christopher Dakes

Students reported learning a lot without having stressful assignments in the course.

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

    • Sophomore standing
    • declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
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GENBUS 365

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  • Any of
    • Sophomore standing
    • declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CHRISTOPHER DAKES is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOANN JATKOWSKI PECK is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Fall 2013. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PAUL JOHNSON is recorded teaching in Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

RICHARD CRABB is recorded teaching in Spring 2016. 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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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Richard Crabb, Christopher Dakes

Historical instructors like Richard Crabb and Christopher Dakes were praised for making subjects interesting and being caring, respectively.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.45 GPA, 76.1% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.56 GPA, 83.9% A/AB (n=62 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Christopher Dakes

Students reported learning a lot without having stressful assignments in the course.

Past student reviews · Paul Johnson

One student found the instructor unsympathetic and noted that he needed to be more personable.

Topics

  • Subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum

Skills

  • Exploration of subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1316 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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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

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Model & dataset provenance 
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