Spring 2027

Special Topics

Special Topics explores current topics and trends in veterinary medicine. Topics vary by offering.

offering recorded1–5 credits

Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Amy Nichelason Elizabeth Alvarez Julie Walker +7 more

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=127 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.87 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=113 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

Develop competence and professional skills in veterinary medicine
Explore current topics and trends in veterinary medicine
Developing breadths of experiences related to veterinary medicine

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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average GPA
letter grades

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Professors

Spring 2027

Amy Nichelason

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=78 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=87 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=96 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Elizabeth Alvarez

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Julie Walker

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Mackenzie Pellin

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Michelle Turek

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Molly Racette

Peggy Schmidt

Sam Almeida

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Shelby Williams

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

Starr Cameron

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMY NICHELASON is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ELIZABETH ALVAREZ is recorded teaching in Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JULIE WALKER is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MACKENZIE PELLIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MICHELLE TUREK is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MOLLY RACETTE is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PEGGY SCHMIDT is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SAM ALMEIDA is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SHELBY WILLIAMS is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STARR CAMERON is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, 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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Section	Mode	Enrolled / capacity
LEC 021	Classroom Instruction	0 / 100
LEC 033	Classroom Instruction	0 / 6
LEC 007	Classroom Instruction	0 / 20
LEC 055	Classroom Instruction	0 / 20
LEC 005	Classroom Instruction	0 / 20
LEC 023	Classroom Instruction	0 / 100

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

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=127 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.87 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=113 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

Current topics and trends in veterinary medicine

Skills

Professional skills in veterinary medicine
Exploring current topics and trends in veterinary medicine
Developing breadth of experience in veterinary medicine

Grades

Spring 2027 · Projected

Before grades are released

– average GPA

Approximate 80% prediction interval

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 · 0.02 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · 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

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

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Special Topics

Recorded 2026-10-14

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Tpc: Veterinary Medical Ethics

Recorded 2026-10-14

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Tpc: Prof Skills in Vet Med

Recorded 2026-10-14

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Tpc: Adv Art of Communication

Recorded 2026-10-14

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Spc Tpc:Pharmaceuticals

Recorded 2026-10-14

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Small Animal Critical Care

Recorded 2026-10-14

MEDSC-V 675 · Spring 2027

Tpc:Small An Emrg Med Didactic

Recorded 2026-10-14

Raw records

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Model outputs & technical records

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

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Model & dataset provenance

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Special Topics

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

Grade history

Prerequisites

Professors

Calendar & sections

Student experience

the class

difficulty & workload

Topics

Skills

Grades

Spring 2027 · Projected

Grades over time

Where this course fits relative to UW–Madison

Sources & history

Catalog & offerings

Student reviews

Grade history

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