Spring 2027

Investigative Reporting

Investigative Reporting covers techniques of investigative and long-form enterprise reporting, including extensive field reporting and a final project.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Adam Schrager3.8/5

Summary

1 / 3

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.80 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Critique investigative journalism.

  • Produce publishable investigative journalism.

  • Investigate, illustrate, and prove evidence for this kind of journalism.

  • Execute interviews.

  • Critique traditional investigative journalism with more sophisticated analysis technique.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

JOURN 335 or graduate/professional standing

  • take one
JOURN 420

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree
  • Any of

Professors

Spring 2027
Adjusted rating
RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 5.00/5 from 2 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.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADAM SCHRAGER is recorded teaching in Spring 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

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 240

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.

Meeting source records
Download part 1

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.80 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.88 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Investigative and long-form enterprise reporting
  • Field reporting and final projects
  • Critiquing investigative journalism

Skills

  • Investigative and long-form enterprise reporting techniques
  • Producing publishable investigative journalism
  • Investigating, illustrating, and proving evidence
  • Executing interviews
  • Critiquing traditional investigative journalism with sophisticated analysis

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Spring 2026

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records
JOURN 420 · Spring 2027

Investigative Reporting

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
[
  {
    "run_id": "20261014T203208-0851c9a1",
    "semester": "1274",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1274:512:024569",
    "course_id": "JOURN 420",
    "course_uid": "course_a1c7d2c3eb791d2f596f8659",
    "term_id": "1274",
    "source_course_id": "024569",
    "source_subject_id": "512",
    "title": "Investigative Reporting",
    "credits_min": 4,
    "credits_max": 4,
    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring, Summer"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "fd4f6b0e96dceb509afec8f0c2a4a5b2d51e884e2a9baaa9c266ca3e8647cc24",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}