Family and Community Influences on the Young Child

Examines child interaction in socialization settings, focusing on family and community socialization processes.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Andrea BuhlerPrudence Yokonia

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Historical reviews of Polina Levchenko: Students report a heavy volume of daily in-class assignments and projects that are time-consuming and difficult to track, with some finding the workload annoying despite the material not being academically hard.

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Prerequisites

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HDFS 469

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Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.84 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.74 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=39 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Polina Levchenko: Polina Levchenko's reviews are polarized, with students citing disorganization, unclear deadlines, and late grading as major concerns. Conversely, others found her lectures interesting and assignments manageable, noting she values effort over textbook usage.

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

CAROLYN LIESEN is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HEATHER KIRKORIAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JILL STEINBERG is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KRISTY ANN BURKHOLDER is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

POLINA LEVCHENKO is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, 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

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction39 / 390

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews of Polina Levchenko: Recent reviews of Polina Levchenko describe a frustrating experience marked by disorganization, unclear expectations, and excessive workload, with students reporting late grades and insufficient feedback.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.68 GPA, 86.6% A/AB (n=67 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.64 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 89.7% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Polina Levchenko: Students report a heavy volume of daily in-class assignments and projects that are time-consuming and difficult to track, with some finding the workload annoying despite the material not being academically hard.

Historical reviews highlight engaging lectures and clear explanations from past instructors, though some students found grading unfair or overly focused on minor details rather than overall success.

Topics

  • Child interaction in socialization settings
  • Socialization processes in the child-family-community system

Grades

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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.

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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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Selected offering source records
HDFS 469 · Fall 2026

Family and Community Influences on the Young Child

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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