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Fall 2026
Biomechanics of Human Movement
KINES 318 teaches the analysis of human action through the application of mechanical principles.
Summary
1 / 7
Historical reviews of Kreg Gruben: The course relies heavily on practice problems and self-study via online videos. Workload includes weekly quizzes, labs, and exams that heavily weight the final grade, requiring students to independently master concepts not clearly explained in lecture.
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Prerequisites
Course map(ANAT&PHY 337 or 338) and (MATH 112 or placement into MATH 113)
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- MATH 112
- placement into MATH 113
Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Kreg Gruben: Kreg Gruben is described as helpful and enthusiastic by some, but others find his mechanical engineering background leads to unclear lectures and irrelevant content. Students report needing to self-teach via online videos and practice problems, with some feeling he makes concepts look easier than they are or dismisses questions.
KREG GRUBEN is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 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 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Online (some classroom) | 82 / 90 | 2 |
| LAB 301 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 15 | 0 |
| LAB 302 | Classroom Instruction | 17 / 15 | 0 |
| LAB 303 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 15 | 1 |
| LAB 304 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 15 | 1 |
| LAB 305 | Classroom Instruction | 17 / 15 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Kines 318 is a math-heavy course with moderate to high difficulty. Reviews for historical instructor Kreg Gruben are polarized, ranging from helpful and enthusiastic to boring and unhelpful, with significant disagreement on lecture clarity and student support.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.47 GPA, 78.5% A/AB (n=65 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.30 GPA, 57.0% A/AB (n=79 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.63 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=92 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Kreg Gruben: The course relies heavily on practice problems and self-study via online videos. Workload includes weekly quizzes, labs, and exams that heavily weight the final grade, requiring students to independently master concepts not clearly explained in lecture.
Historical reviews of Kreg Gruben: Some students report frustration with Gruben's teaching style, citing unclear explanations, irrelevant content for clinical kinesiology, and dismissive attitudes during office hours. They find the lecture format pointless or boring and feel the course demands excessive independent effort.
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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.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.18 GPA average error.
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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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Biomechanics of Human Movement
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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