Spring 2027

Information for Communication

Develops information collection, verification, analysis, and presentation skills (CVAP approach) for journalism and strategic communication careers.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Christopher Cascio

Summary

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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).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop knowledge of the various information sources used by professional journalists and marketing professionals, as well as working knowledge of how to use the most important information sources.

  • Cultivate and practice critical skills for evaluating the validity of different forms of information used by journalists and marketing professionals, and to judge its quality and veracity.

  • Explore different forms of analyzing and presenting information in forms that are useful to journalists and strategic communication professionals, including data visualization techniques.

  • Practice skills and strategies for accomplishing group tasks and engaging in peer learning.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Concurrent enrollment inJOURN 202

JOURN 203 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.56 GPA, 79.5% A/AB (n=117 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.67 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=120 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.79 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=118 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CHRISTOPHER CASCIO is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024. 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
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1200
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LAB 304Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LAB 303Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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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, verification, analysis, and presentation.
  • Information sources used by journalists and marketing professionals.
  • Data visualization techniques.

Skills

  • Information collection, verification, analysis, and presentation using the CVAP approach.
  • Evaluating the validity, quality, and veracity of information sources.
  • Analyzing and presenting information, including data visualization techniques.
  • Accomplishing group tasks and engaging in peer learning.

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

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Approximate 80% prediction interval

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 · 0.11 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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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

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
JOURN 203 · Spring 2027

Information for Communication

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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