Visualizing Science and Technology

LSC 350 introduces principles of visual communication for science information, covering design, perception, and media representation.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Sheila Reaves: Students report light reading and an easy final project, with the option to select specific weeks for a short three-page paper.

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Prerequisites

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Satisfied Communications A or graduate/professional standing

    • Communications A
    • graduate/professional standing
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LSC 350

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Sheila Reaves describe her as helpful, nice, and an easy grader. Reviewers found her lectures clear, engaging, and applicable to daily life, noting that the course material was interesting and worth attending.

SHIELA REAVES is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews for Sheila Reaves describe LSC 350 as an incredibly easy course with light reading and engaging lectures that apply to daily life.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 89.8% A/AB (n=88 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.39 GPA, 63.8% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 94.2% A/AB (n=52 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Sheila Reaves: Students report light reading and an easy final project, with the option to select specific weeks for a short three-page paper.

Historical reviews of Sheila Reaves: Reviewers highlight Reaves as helpful and nice, noting that her clear instruction makes the material accessible and the grading lenient.

Topics

  • Visual communication of science information
  • Design, perception, and cognition principles
  • Representation of science in mass media

Skills

  • Understanding principles of design, perception, and cognition
  • Using technologies to represent science in mass media
  • Performing written critique of visual science communication

Grades

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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.

6 earlier forecasts · 0.22 GPA average error.

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1320 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.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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