Spring 2027

French and Italian Renaissance Literature Online

Online course exploring Renaissance Italian and French cities, studying main literary texts and cultural documents associated with specific regions.

no offering record for this termCredits unavailable
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gipson

The class involved excessive busywork, specifically fill-in-the-blank questions requiring answers buried in outdated online lectures and readings with a complicated layout.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Interpret the historical phenomenon known as the Renaissance in Italy and France through literary texts.

  • Analyze and interpret literary texts of different genres by diverse authors.

  • Appreciate the motivations driving writers' desire to recover the classical past.

  • Trace how Classical traditions and models for behavior integrated with Christian virtues.

  • Recognize how cultural shifts and philosophical trends inform literary texts.

  • Perceive cultural differences across time and geographical spaces.

  • Appreciate the literary accomplishments of women across time.

  • Improve expository writing skills through the close reading of texts.

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

Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
LITTRANS 360

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

Prerequisite text tree
  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JENNIFER GIPSON is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016. 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

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

Meeting source records

No records available.

Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gipson

Students reported a frustrating experience with a harsh instructor, leading one to drop the course halfway through due to the demanding nature of the material.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 3.32 GPA, 60.6% A/AB (n=71 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.72 GPA, 84.0% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.47 GPA, 78.1% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gipson

The class involved excessive busywork, specifically fill-in-the-blank questions requiring answers buried in outdated online lectures and readings with a complicated layout.

Past student reviews · Jennifer Gipson

One student noted a generous grading curve, but felt it did not compensate for the ridiculous workload and poor course design.

Topics

  • Renaissance Italian and French cities
  • Recovery of the classical past
  • Integration of Classical traditions and Christian virtues
  • Literary accomplishments of women

Skills

  • Analyze and interpret literary texts
  • Expository writing
  • Cultural comparison across time and geography

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2020— 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 Fall 2020

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Fall 2020 · all course levels

GPA

Higher than % of other courses in this group.

Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range

letter grades

More recorded grades than % of other courses in this group.

Typical course in this group: letter grades.

About this comparison

1108 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

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

No offering records for the selected term.

Raw records 
[]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews
Download part 1
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": "3807f7faab273b72d8c33b06288cf4ba3ed7a7cfbcbd3ecac8edd3b33ce8e61a",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}