Spring 2027

Mental Health Policies and Services

Mental Health Policies and Services prepares students for leadership roles by examining policies and services that shape mental health care systems and treatment for persons with mental illness.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lynette Studer

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 92.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.73 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the history, organization, and implementation of US social welfare policies within the focal area

  • Articulate how social welfare issues and problems are defined, created, framed, and prioritized in the focal area

  • Understand the policymaking process, including the historical context, legislative activities, and the role of advocacy within the focal area

  • Analyze social welfare problems in the focal area and evaluate policy alternatives

  • Examine how social welfare policies in the focal area impact the lives of individuals, including those from marginalized, oppressed, or underserved communities, intentionally and unintentionally

  • Evaluate social welfare policies and advocate for reform in social welfare systems within the focal area

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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SOC WORK 709(or SOC WORK 606 prior to Fall 2024) or Declared in Social Work Advanced Standing MSW

    • take one
    • Declared in Social Work Advanced Standing MSW
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SOCWORK 836

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    • Declared in Social Work Advanced Standing MSW

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.69 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 92.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.73 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LYNETTE STUDER is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, 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

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.78 GPA, 92.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.73 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Mental health policies and services influencing care, treatment, and system structures.
  • History, organization, and implementation of US social welfare policies.
  • Impact of social welfare policies on individuals and marginalized or underserved communities.

Skills

  • Analyzing social welfare problems and evaluating policy alternatives.
  • Evaluating social welfare policies and advocating for reform in social welfare systems.
  • Understanding the policymaking process, legislative activities, and the role of advocacy.

Grades

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

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Where this course fits relative to

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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

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Selected offering source records
SOCWORK 836 · Spring 2027

Mental Health Policies and Services

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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