Spring 2027

Of Demons and Angels. Dante's Divine Comedy

Explore Dante's Divine Comedy through readings, videos, and images to understand medieval civilization, literary history, and human nature.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Jelena Todorovic

The course involved little to no out-of-class work, with exams covering material from lecture slides. Students noted that exams were straightforward if they attended lectures, though skipping class made them extremely difficult.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Learn about Dante Alighieri, his life, and works

  • Understand medieval civilization and its human culture(s)

  • Describe literary, historical, cultural concepts and phenomena

  • Analyze from multiple perspectives a text, a situation, a context

  • Synthesize information acquired from primary and secondary sources

  • Learn the dangers of anachronism

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
LITTRANS/MEDIEVAL/RELIGST 253

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JELENA TODOROVIC is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. 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

Past student reviews · Jelena Todorovic

Students found Jelena Todorovic's lectures insightful and passionate, noting that attending class was crucial for exam preparation. Many described the course as engaging and perspective-changing if students participated actively.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.59 GPA, 77.3% A/AB (n=110 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.81 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=113 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.70 GPA, 78.5% A/AB (n=107 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Jelena Todorovic

The course involved little to no out-of-class work, with exams covering material from lecture slides. Students noted that exams were straightforward if they attended lectures, though skipping class made them extremely difficult.

Past student reviews · Jelena Todorovic

Opinions varied significantly; some found the slides unorganized and assignment criteria unclear, while others appreciated the professor's investment in student success and clear answers to questions.

Topics

  • Dante Alighieri's life and works
  • Medieval literary history and socio-political context
  • History of ideas and shared history

Skills

  • Analyzing texts, situations, or contexts from multiple perspectives
  • Synthesizing information from primary and secondary sources
  • Describing literary, historical, and cultural concepts

Grades

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Spring 2027 · 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 · 0.28 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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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

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model & dataset provenance 
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