Spring 2027

Shaping the Built Environment

Shaping the Built Environment explores how urban, suburban, and rural environments intersect with natural systems through cultural and biophysical influences.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Anna Bierbrauer

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 97.8% A/AB (n=46 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand the diverse range of cultural, biophysical, and socio-political factors that shape the built environments of North America.

  • Understand the principles and theories of how the built environment influences human health, safety, and well-being, as well as community sustainability, resiliency, and quality of life.

  • Demonstrate the ability to analyze, interpret, and communicate information portraying community character and sense of place across the urban, suburban, and exurban landscape.

  • Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of designing and planning within the built environment.

  • Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of designing and planning within the built environment.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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LANDARC 211

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 97.8% A/AB (n=46 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANNA BIERBRAUER is recorded teaching in Spring 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

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 97.8% A/AB (n=46 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Intersections of urban, suburban, rural, and natural environments.
  • Cultural and biophysical systems influencing environmental structure and function.
  • Sustainability challenges in design and planning.

Skills

  • Understanding cultural, biophysical, and socio-political factors shaping built environments and their influence on health and sustainability.
  • Analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information about community character and sense of place.
  • Applying sustainability principles and frameworks to design and planning challenges.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1286 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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LANDARC 211 · Spring 2027

Shaping the Built Environment

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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