Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.64 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.69 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.75 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Analytic Tools for Public Policy
ANALYTIC TOOLS FOR PUBLIC POLICY trains students in analytical skills and tools to comprehend, assess, and address complex public policy decisions using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Summary
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Historical reviews of Zhenhuan Reed Lei: The course is rated as difficult, with lectures described as hard to follow.
Grade history
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Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=52 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades).
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Zhenhuan Lei describe his explanations as difficult to understand and his lectures as hard to follow. Current instructors Christine Durrance and Lindsay Jacobs have no specific review evidence provided in this dataset to assess their teaching strengths or concerns.
CHRISTINE DURRANCE is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
LINDSAY JACOBS is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, 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.
ZHENHUAN LEI is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 44 / 45 | 1 |
| LEC 003 | Classroom Instruction | 16 / 27 | 0 |
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
A single historical review describes the course as difficult to follow due to unclear explanations and lectures.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 97.9% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=52 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.85 GPA, 98.1% A/AB (n=54 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Zhenhuan Reed Lei: The course is rated as difficult, with lectures described as hard to follow.
Historical reviews of Zhenhuan Reed Lei: Students found the instructor's explanations very difficult to understand.
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About this comparison
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
Catalog & offerings
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Selected offering source records
Analytic Tools for Public Policy
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
LLM outputs across runs
Full model traces
Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.
Model & dataset provenance
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