Fall 2026

Human Development & Family Studies Leadership Symposium

HDFS 253 is a leadership symposium that examines careers in Human Ecology through presentations by high-level leaders in various HDFS-related professions.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Claire BarrettMilton Yoon

Summary

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Historical reviews of Kristy Burkholder: Reviewers report a high workload relative to the one-credit value, citing short notice for paper assignments and the final paper.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 83.5% A/AB (n=79 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.78 GPA, 87.7% A/AB (n=73 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.74 GPA, 90.2% A/AB (n=82 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Kristy Burkholder describe an unorganized course with late assignment releases and confusing grading. Reviewers cite mandatory attendance with strict absence policies and last-minute grade posting as significant frustrations.

CLAIRE BARRETT is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KRISTY ANN BURKHOLDER is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. 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

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction81 / 840

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews for Kristy Burkholder describe the course as disorganized with unfair grading practices and mandatory attendance policies.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 83.5% A/AB (n=79 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.78 GPA, 87.7% A/AB (n=73 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.74 GPA, 90.2% A/AB (n=82 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Kristy Burkholder: Reviewers report a high workload relative to the one-credit value, citing short notice for paper assignments and the final paper.

Historical reviews of Kristy Burkholder: Students found the grade breakdown confusing and noted that the instructor delayed posting grades until the end of the term.

Topics

  • Careers in Human Ecology and Human Development and Family Studies
  • Specific professions including counseling, school psychology, social work, and health care

Skills

  • Examination of careers in Human Ecology and HDFS
  • Exposure to professional leaders in counseling, psychology, social work, and health care

Grades

Historical instructor

Fall 2026 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.15 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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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.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
HDFS 253 · Fall 2026

Human Development & Family Studies Leadership Symposium

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records 
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance 
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