Spring 2027

Housing Precarity and Social Policy

Introduction to housing precarity and being unhoused in the U.S., exploring housing markets, social policies, demography, history, and service needs through classroom and community-based learning.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Marah Curtis4.2/5

Summary

1 / 3

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.08 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the trends in rates of homelessness overtime and across demographic groups and geography

  • Analyze and assess various methods for quantifying the size, scope and trends in housing affordability and homelessness by the federal and local government as well as non-profit service providers

  • Compare the effectiveness of policy and service provision to address housing precarity

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

Junior standing and SOC WORK 206

SOCWORK 578

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree

Professors

Spring 2027

Marah Curtis

Adjusted rating
RMP difficulty
captured reviews
About this rating

Raw average: 4.60/5 from 30 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.08 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MARAH CURTIS is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 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

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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

Meeting source records
Download part 1

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.08 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Housing markets, social policies, demography, history, and social provision
  • Social policies and service needs for unhoused persons
  • Community-based learning experiences

Skills

  • Describing trends in homelessness rates across demographics and geography
  • Analyzing methods for quantifying housing affordability and homelessness
  • Comparing the effectiveness of policies and services for housing precarity

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Spring 2026

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records
SOCWORK 578 · Spring 2027

Housing Precarity and Social Policy

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
[
  {
    "run_id": "20261014T203208-0851c9a1",
    "semester": "1274",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00",
    "offering_id": "1274:896:021213",
    "course_id": "SOCWORK 578",
    "course_uid": "course_d27ba19b048e55f583af24b2",
    "term_id": "1274",
    "source_course_id": "021213",
    "source_subject_id": "896",
    "title": "Housing Precarity and Social Policy",
    "credits_min": 3,
    "credits_max": 3,
    "typically_offered": "Fall, Spring"
  }
]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "f8cdc98d23037e2d01f827c668aa7fa81ef88d3f02b1193aecab0901f655259e",
  "requirements_status": "needs_review",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}