Spring 2027

Communicating About Careers

Communicating About Careers explores the value of liberal arts education for 21st-century careers through research, writing, and presentation assignments focused on career communication.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jonathan Jibson3.5/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 88.7% A/AB (n=133 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.83 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=148 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand, evaluate, and communicate arguments about the nature of work in contemporary global, digital, and multicultural society, with respect to a specific target career community.

  • Develop and communicate a compelling personal career narrative about your path through a liberal arts and sciences education, with respect to a specific target career community.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Satisfied Communications A

  • Satisfied Communications A
INTER-LS 215

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  • Satisfied Communications A

Professors

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Raw average: 3.33/5 from 12 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 88.7% A/AB (n=133 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.83 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=148 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JONATHAN JIBSON is recorded teaching in 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

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 180
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1620
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 309Classroom Instruction0 / 180
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 180

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 88.7% A/AB (n=133 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.83 GPA, 91.9% A/AB (n=148 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Value of liberal arts and sciences education for careers
  • Global, technological, and multicultural workplace dynamics
  • Nature of work in contemporary global, digital, and multicultural society

Skills

  • Constructing written essays, presenting formal speeches, and crafting digital presentations
  • Building resumes, writing cover letters, using social networking tools, and interviewing
  • Critically analyzing career and education implications of a diverse and digital workplace

Grades

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Spring 2027 · 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.

5 earlier forecasts · 0.04 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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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

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
INTER-LS 215 · Spring 2027

Communicating About Careers

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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