Fall 2026

First Amendment

LAW 901 explores American constitutional law governing speech, association, the press, and religion through leading First Amendment cases.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Franciska Coleman

Summary

1 / 2

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.30 GPA, 30.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.17 GPA, 25.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

Grade history

average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Law JD

  • Declared in Law JD
LAW 901

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

Prerequisite text tree
  • Declared in Law JD

Professors

Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.30 GPA, 30.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.17 GPA, 25.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

FRANCISKA COLEMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 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 2026

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction33 / 350

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

Meeting source records

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.30 GPA, 30.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.17 GPA, 25.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Speech, association, press, and religion rights
  • False statements, sexually explicit materials, hate speech, and corporate political spending
  • Public safety, national security, and equality as countervailing interests

Skills

  • Analyzing countervailing interests justifying restrictions on expression
  • Evaluating arguments regarding the scope of protected speech

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Fall 2026.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Fall 2025

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Not enough comparable courses for Fall 2026 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.

Selected offering source records
LAW 901 · Fall 2026

First Amendment

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
[
  {
    "run_id": "20260907T155543-ce3781c4",
    "semester": "1272",
    "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1272:528:026733",
    "course_id": "LAW 901",
    "course_uid": "course_677aba0d8590c8e900c18930",
    "term_id": "1272",
    "source_course_id": "026733",
    "source_subject_id": "528",
    "title": "First Amendment",
    "credits_min": 3,
    "credits_max": 4,
    "typically_offered": "Not Applicable"
  }
]
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
Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Model & dataset provenance
{
  "model": "nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4",
  "model_revision": "1355db6a052410cfd62085d94b58866fd0f2c3c5",
  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "3770d71add31dad3f2d1167f64bff150a03035c340a57b3a24bf1ac8e00950a4",
  "requirements_status": "needs_review",
  "dataset_revision": "e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
}