Spring 2027

Practicum in GIS Development

Practicum in GIS Development: students develop the ability to conceive and manage a real-world GIS development project and design a plan for solving it.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jonathan Nelson

Summary

1 / 2

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

GEOG 378, 572, 574, 575, 576, 579 and graduate/professional standing

GEOG 778

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JONATHAN NELSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, 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 2027

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 070Online Only0 / 300

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records

No records available.

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Real-world GIS development projects
  • Project planning and problem-solving design

Skills

  • Conceiving and managing real-world GIS development projects
  • Designing plans for solving GIS development projects

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

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

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.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records
GEOG 778 · Spring 2027

Practicum in GIS Development

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
[
  {
    "run_id": "20261014T203208-0851c9a1",
    "semester": "1274",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1274:416:024659",
    "course_id": "GEOG 778",
    "course_uid": "course_3fece2d006799fac74a282a7",
    "term_id": "1274",
    "source_course_id": "024659",
    "source_subject_id": "416",
    "title": "Practicum in GIS Development",
    "credits_min": 4,
    "credits_max": 4,
    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring, Summer"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "0dd540ce87182dd91973b2cd90ef962e177f800d8471a72d6b983c73af59e4a0",
  "requirements_status": "needs_review",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}