Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Special Topics in Music
MUSIC 497 explores wide-ranging topics in music history, theory, or education.
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.5% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.1% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=74 letter grades).
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Professors
Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.87 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.77 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
CHRIS ROTTMAYER is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
GABRIELLE CORNISH is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
LINDSAY KOH is recorded teaching in 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.
NADIA CHANA is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
RUKA SHIRONISHI is recorded teaching in 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
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 059 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 6 | 0 |
| LAB 159 | Classroom Instruction | 2 / 6 | 0 |
| LAB 101 | Classroom Instruction | 21 / 22 | 0 |
| LAB 070 | Classroom Instruction | 11 / 20 | 0 |
| LAB 036 | Classroom Instruction | 20 / 20 | 0 |
| LAB 038 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 10 | 0 |
| LAB 051 | Classroom Instruction | 4 / 10 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.5% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.1% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=74 letter grades).
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Fall 2026 · Projected
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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.
5 earlier forecasts · 0.17 GPA average error.
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1283 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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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Special Topics in Music
Recorded 2026-09-07Oboe Reed-Making
Recorded 2026-09-07Contemp Issues Popular Mus Stu
Recorded 2026-09-07Introduction to Music Business
Recorded 2026-09-07Practices of Listening
Recorded 2026-09-07Gamelan
Recorded 2026-09-07Music and the Cold War
Recorded 2026-09-07All-University Philharmonia
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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