Spring 2027

Multicultural Literature and Resources for Children and Youth

Examines diversity and representation in literature and media for children and young adults, covering ethnicity, gender, and ability, with skills in advocacy and collection development.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Madge Klais

The course required weekly assignments and online discussions, making it unsuitable for last-minute work and involving a significant amount of work.

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Prerequisites

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LIS 629

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MADGE KLAIS is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2018, Spring 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Madge Klais

Students found the class interesting and taught by a good professor, with material that was not overly difficult.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.93 GPA, 96.7% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Madge Klais

The course required weekly assignments and online discussions, making it unsuitable for last-minute work and involving a significant amount of work.

Past student reviews · Madge Klais

One student noted that while the workload was heavy, it was not a bad thing and the teaching quality was high.

Topics

  • Representation of ethnicities, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, and (dis)ability
  • Authenticity, cultural correctness, reader response, and intellectual freedom
  • Multicultural resource advocacy, promotion, assessment, and collection development

Skills

  • Advocate for, promote, and assess multicultural resources
  • Develop a collection
  • Understand issues related to cultural competence and reader response

Grades

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

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Where this course fits relative to

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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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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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