Information for Communication

JOURN 203 teaches information skills for journalism and strategic communication using the CVAP approach.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Danbi KimDIEGO Mazorra CorreaTomas Dodds Rojas

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 95.6% A/AB (n=114 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.83 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=118 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=117 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

TOMAS DODDS ROJAS is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction120 / 1200
LAB 301Classroom Instruction30 / 280
LAB 302Classroom Instruction30 / 290
LAB 303Classroom Instruction30 / 290
LAB 304Classroom Instruction30 / 290

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 95.6% A/AB (n=114 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.83 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=118 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=117 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Information collection and verification.
  • Information analysis and presentation.
  • CVAP approach.

Skills

  • Information collection, verification, analysis, and presentation.

Grades

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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.

6 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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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

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JOURN 203 · Fall 2026

Information for Communication

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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