Spring 2027

Wellbeing & Society

WELLBEING & SOCIETY investigates how society shapes our vision of a good life and our capability to live well by surveying classical and recent sociological perspectives.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Tamkinat Rauf

Workload included weekly projects and short four-question quizzes. Professor Rauf was generous with deadlines, and exams reflected the material taught in class.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply sociological principles and research to explain how social processes shape cultural ideas about a good life and individuals’ life goals

  • Critically analyze assumptions undergirding common wisdom about wellbeing

  • Articulate how various domains of social life enhance or diminish wellbeing using social research

  • Assess the relevance of the social phenomena to private psychological experiences

  • Apply sociological principles and research to understand one’s impact on others’ wellbeing

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Prerequisites

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SOC 144

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

TAMKINAT RAUF is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Tamkinat Rauf

Professor Rauf taught this course as an engaging, supportive experience where she genuinely cared about student success and class involvement.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 94.9% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.70 GPA, 83.8% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Tamkinat Rauf

Workload included weekly projects and short four-question quizzes. Professor Rauf was generous with deadlines, and exams reflected the material taught in class.

Past student reviews · Tamkinat Rauf

Reviewers noted that 75-minute lectures could feel long, but the professor was fun and the class was easy if students attended or read the material.

Topics

  • Classical and recent sociological perspectives on the good life and living well.
  • How social contexts and interactions create understandings of value, morality, and pleasure.
  • The contingency of individual wellbeing on the actions of others.
  • Evaluating conventional wisdom and scientific claims about living well.

Skills

  • Applying sociological principles and research to explain how social processes shape cultural ideas about a good life and life goals.
  • Critically analyzing assumptions undergirding common wisdom about wellbeing.
  • Articulating how various domains of social life enhance or diminish wellbeing using social research.
  • Assessing the relevance of social phenomena to private psychological experiences.
  • Applying sociological principles and research to understand one’s impact on others’ wellbeing.

Grades

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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.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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